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A sixties kind of guy remembering the past and the lessons learned. I'm passing on what I've mooched from from life in hopes of sparking memories and helping others. It's just my life as best I can make it.
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A FAMILY OF MASHBURN'S
As far back as most anyone researching our family name can go is around 1655, to a man born in St. Giles, London, England named Edward Marshborne or Marshburn. Having “borne” or the shorter “burn” added to a name usually denotes that his an...
DID YOU HAVE A COOL NICKNAME IN HIGH SCHOOL?
I was contacted again by my old friend Mickey Jones Monday. He sent me two separate pieces his brother, Larry Jones, had written and compiled. One was a poem he called “Harriman Nicknames”, and the other was a compilation of the nicknames he co...
FUN WITH WISDOM TEETH
I lost my right wisdom teeth when I was in my late twenties, and best I can remember only because one was impacted and infected. The logic in removing both on that side was that I would eventually have problems with the upper one. So, the dentist r...
THE HARRIMAN HOOLIGANS
Recently I’ve been in touch with another “Harriman Hooligan”, as he likes to call his Class of ’64 buddies. His name is Mickey Jones, and he once worked for the IRS, but now does something along the same lines for the state. He was tight frie...
A RETURN TO “OUR” HIDE-OUT
I’ve never mentioned my favorite place on earth before now, and it’s not even in my “Laugh & Times of Mushy”, but I was blessed last week to find the person* that now owned this beautiful private place, and discovering that we both call i...
IT’S A GIRL!
Corey and I had great hopes that his and Tia’s next child would be a boy…you know, carry on the family genes and all that macho stuff…even though we’ll love a little girl just as much! Tia and Corey left Lily in our charge Thursday (10...
AN OLD AND A NEW YANKEE CATHEDRAL
On February 6, 1921, the Yankees purchased 10 acres of property in the west Bronx. The land, purchased from the estate of William Waldorf Astor for $675,000. The new stadium favored left-handed hitters with the right-field foul pole only 295 f...
COREY CELEBRATES 34 YEARS
This past Tuesday evening Judy and I met Corey, Tia, and Lily at Wasabi’s to celebrate his birthday. The meeting was arranged by his mother, Connie, as is always the case. Also attending was Gary, Connie’s husband, her father, Dub and his d...
MY HANDS FELT JUST LIKE TWO BALLOONS
Here is a retro post for your enjoyment: CLICK HERE ...
TIMES SQUARE ADVERTISING
Number One Times Square is the most viewed building in Times Square, both in person and on TV, and although the building is completely vacant, makes more money than any other building in New York City! It’s the long slender building abo...
THINGS NOT GOING TOO WELL 'ROUND HERE
Things are going so well right now, but I’ll be back “full force” soon. My computer crashed again night before last and taken away some of my photos, and several of my Outlook email address, phone numbers, etc. If you and I have done some co...
MORE THAN A BIG APPLE TO EAT IN NEW YORK
Check out my "food and beverage" report for our New York trip on Mushy's Cookings! ...
HELD CAPTIVE BY UNITED AIRLINES IN CHICAGO
Judy, Katie Bug (our granddaughter), and I went to New York this past week with Terri, Steve, and Juliana (their granddaughter). Our flight to New York began on Flight 5881 at 10:29 AM (Eastern) Sunday (6/8/08) out of Knoxville, Tennessee to Chi...
MY “LAUGH & TIMES” FLASHED BEFORE MY EYES
“There’s the neatest little waterfall over here Mushy (not his real name),” Judy said. “Look at those “Bluets” down on the side of that rock,” Ron added. Earlier, Judy had been miffed at me for not coming across to the big ro...
THE HARRIMAN CLASS OF ’64 RE-UNITES
Look at us, still just as young, slim, trim, and happy as ever…well, we’re all still the happiest and closest class ever to come out of Harriman (South Harriman) High School anyway! Friday night, about 24 or so of us old classmates met at J...
MY BEST FRIEND FROM 44 YEARS AGO
A few days ago I got a call that went something like this, “Hello?” “Is this Paul Mashburn?” “Yes?” “This is Richard Lacher.” “No kiddin’! Where the hell are you?” “I’m down the road from you in Spring...
HUNTING WITH MARION
I KNOW A LOT OF YOU HAVEN'T ENJOYED MY DEER HUNTING POSTS, BUT YOU HAVE ONE MORE TO READ. ACTUALLY, THIS IS THE LAST OF MY MEMOIRS, THIS COMPLETES EVERYTHING I HAVE INCLUDED IN "THE LAUGH & TIMES OF MUSHY". FROM HERE ON...IT'S JUST THE HERE AND ...
THE CRYSTAL FOREST
Do you remember the wonderful scenes in the ‘Ice House/Palace’ in “Doctor Zhivago”? Well, back in January of 1989, on the last hunt of Catoosa for the season, I hunted a day in the woods there that was reminiscent of those scenes. The on...
THE FIRST BUCK
It is well documented that ancient tribes used chemical means to reduce fear and increase the fighting power of their warriors. One such drug was from the Amanita muscaria mushroom, a red-speckled cousin of the deadly "Angel of Death." The shamans ...
THE DISAPPEARING DEER TRICK
As I stated in a previous post, I hunted the Land Between the Lakes (LBL) twice during my hunting career, the first time scoring my first kill, but the second time was a heart breaking experience. This story is about the second time. The se...
THE FIRST KILL
The Land Between the Lakes (LBL), is a National Recreational Area about 90 miles northwest of Nashville, and about 26 miles north of Clarksville, Tennessee, right on the Kentucky and Tennessee state line. The inland peninsula itself is half in Ken...
SOMETHING JUST BEHIND ME
There was a time in America when a man, a real man, could keep his family fed with what he hunted near his homestead. I suppose, like all hunters, that primitive thought was in the back of my mind when I started deer hunting. It is quite the fant...
BOOTS
In the film “The Deer Hunter” the central character, Michael, tries to drive home the point of always being prepared to his other hunting buddies by insisting his friend Nick not loan Stanley a pair of boots. The movie goes on to show another ch...
THE DAYS OF BONDING – PART THREE
Actually mine and Corey’s entire relationship has been one big bonding experience. Every time we get together we cram every experience we can into the short time. I have never tried to be Corey’s father, just a good buddy with whom he could le...
.25 CALIBER NIGHTMARES
When Judy and I married she had a little chrome-plated .25 automatic pistol that I often carried back in the days before permits. I suppose it gave me some comfort in knowing it was discreetly stuffed down in my right hip pocket with my handkerchi...
ANOTHER DAY I ALMOST DIED
Lin reminded me recently of the times I crawled under our “house trailer” and helped my dad level up after arriving at a new destination. Underneath I was save and secure working along side my dad, even though he constantly yelled at me to push ...
“If You Don’t Go Dance with Judy, I’ll Kick Your Ass!”
So, do you remember David Arp, the guy in the “fight club” (Chapter 56) back in my high school days? He is essentially responsible for Judy and I being together today. After Corey’s mom and I split, I ended up in a “heat related” relat...
AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE
I continued working at The Roane County NEWS for a little over four years, becoming the Advertising Manager and hiring two wonderfully talented sales women. One was a beautiful young and energetic California lady who I quickly assigned the “h...
HOW I KILLED PAPA JOHN
So, I stood on a hillside overlooking a four-lane state highway and with a distant view of Interstate 40, which steeply slopes its way off Walden Ridge into and out of the Cardiff Valley that runs from Harriman to Rockwood, Tennessee, saying my last ...
PAPERBACK WRITER!
The paperback version of "The Laugh & Times of Mushy" is up and ready at Lulu.com.As I've said, it's a compilation of blog post from Mushy's Moochings (Also known as a blook!). This blog was started in early 2006 with the express intention of le...
