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Greg McAvoy

A Day in the Life of

Anything > Employment In today’s world of hustle and bustle, there is really only one subset of people amongst us that are truly the wealthiest: the unemployed. Your economics teacher might have tried to cushion the blow by calling it frictional unemployment, or ‘in-between’

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Greg McAvoy

The Wild Wild Wing

Just Wing It. There’s only one correct answer when asked so often, “How do you like your wings?” ……Wild. I don’t stop for my wings. I don’t go to another planet for my wings. My chicken wings do not come with a breast. And

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Greg McAvoy

Now Introducing… Horse Boys

We All Know One We have all heard of horse girls before. Her persona – horses. Her spirit animal – horses. Room? Horse themed. The jiblets on her crocs – you guessed it. She lies and says the year she was born also happened

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Greg McAvoy

Fort Wetherill – A Relic of Rhode Island Warfare

Small State Small Fort What an incredible state. Ths little guy comes with everything. Rich (Newport), poor (Central Farms), beaches, farms, harsh winters, ebullient summers, zigs, zags. Fun fact: it is the smallest state with the longest name. The ‘State of Rhode Island and

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Greg McAvoy

Bradley Mine – A Mine That’s Ours

Long before you could make money selling used sweatshirts on Poshmark, indulging others with feet photos, or simply being hot on social media, there were honest ways to get by. Consider me a disgruntled pauper whose feet never turned up a dime. My coffee

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Greg McAvoy

Catholicism Strikes Again

Time is a Flat Circle As a God-fearing man who occasionally will drop a George Washington into the collection bin, I can say this: the Catholic church has its flaws. We all do, though. We stumble, we fall, and then get back up, this

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Greg McAvoy

My Two Home States: New York and Fear

Do Not ‘Fear Not’ Similar to every other living, breathing, sentient being on this lush planet of ours, I too get scared. With the exception of maybe Dennis Rodman, each of us fear something. Man, woman, toddler, dog, orangutang, Cornish game hen, screaming hairy

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Greg McAvoy

European Urbex – The Wild Frontier

Or Shall I Say Eurbex? I’m proud to announce that after scouring the internet for longer than I care to admit, the term ‘Eurbex’ was nowhere to be found.  Anyone who still holds their phone with one hand and types with one single finger

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Greg McAvoy

Can This Be My 9-5?

One Qualm To Rule Them All Anyone else working a glamorous 9-5 job may even resonate with this. And I hope you do. I hope with every you sentence you nod and think to yourself, “Hey. This work complainer is right.” I hope it

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Greg McAvoy

Hats Off to Tioranda

The Man in the Bowler Hat An enormous shout-out to Lewis Tompkins, the man behind creating New York’s hat manufacturing capital in 1879. The Tioranda Hat Factory would be nothing without him. Instead, Danbury, Connecticut would have ruled the hat making industry with an

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