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"Silently Seizing: Common, Unrecognized and Frequently Missed Seizures and Their Potentially Damaging Impact on Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders" is the book that I'll be giving away later this afternoon (Tuesday) on my Puffman Musical Trivia...

I've got a great new hardback from HarperCollins, set for national release tomorrow, Tuesday that I'll be giving away this afternoon on the Puffman Show. Be the 1st caller in with the correct answer to my Puffman Musical Trivia question at 4:30 today & win "Zumwalt-The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr". Pr...

This is probably the 1st time that I have ever been accused of "being grounded". I was looking forward to riding in the B-176 Sentimental Journey bomber plane earlier today (Monday) over at our Cut Bank International Airport. Unfortunately, due to this morning's high winds, today's flights are delayed until Wednesday afternoon...

It's like the old tune that was #1 on the charts back in 1945...The B-17G bomber, "Sentimental Journey" will be visiting our Cut Bank International Airport Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday of next week. What a flying machine! This is a 4 engine job with more RPM's than an old 78 record...

I received a missive last week from the Highways Department! No, not our Montana Department of Transportation down in Helena. This one came all the way from the Hong Kong Highways Department Government Offices over in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Now I don't know much about that part of the world, but I have often dined at the Shelby Kowloons down on Main Street in Uptown Shelby...

Lifestyle no doubt and more often than not, because of the hepatitis C virus. The "celebrity list is endless...David Crosby, Gregg Allman, the late Dallas Taylor, Larry Hagman, & Jim Nabors, although I believe in Nabors case, he claimed that he cut himself shaving...

That's what Harvard PH.D and best-selling author, Richard Boyatzia says about Robert E. Hall's newest book, "This Land of Strangers: The Relationship Crisis That Imperils Home, Work, Politics and Faith". Hall says "the relationship crisis is widely felt...

Tall Todd and the custom cutter guys are still down in the Conrad area. The boys are finishing up some winter wheat north of Conrad and waiting on the green spring grains. Some barley and spring wheat HAVE been harvested but high grain moisture is halting their big machines from wrapping things up here in the Golden Triangle...

I was at the Marias Heritage Center last evening (Tuesday) reading Montana History. "Pioneer Doctor".What a great book! We've completed 19 chapters and have 2 left to go plus the epilogue and we should conclude this saga next week. This story of a lady doctor in the old west out here in Montana has been a real romp...

That's the subject of a new novel I'm perusing by author Timothy J. Korzep. Korzep, in his working life, found himself surrounded by fund managers, market strategists, and analysts, spending time in Paris, Milan, London, and Hong Kong. In his latest offering, the president is among the members of the elite G-10 taken captive by militants who crash a peaceful inaugural luncheon...

I was at the Marias Heritage Center last evening (Tuesday) to read some Montana History. We usually read a complete book over the course of 4 to 6 weeks but last evening, for a little change in pace, I read a couple of selections from a presentation entitled "Gold Dust to Dollars"...

Libraries are something that we are all blessed with as Americans, and here in Shelby, we are most fortunate to have the services of the Toole County Library. Sometimes I like to say that the library building is "the building with the most stories in town"...