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Learning about People from What They Leave behind
Several times in my life I have found myself exploring what others left behind. It’s interesting to see what people will stack beside the street for the claw truck. Sometimes it is worthwhile to w...
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Taking a Look at Stephen King and His Writing
Where do writers come from? It looks as though there may be as many answers as there are writers. Hiding behind this question, there are often better ones, depending on what the questioner is plann...
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Nocturnal or Diurnal: Not always an Easy Choice to Make
Armadillos are nocturnal, creatures of the night. If you want to see one eating your garden, you might need to sit out on your porch and wait for it, so you can discuss the matter. A .22 rifle help...
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Strength to be like Drew Brees
We’ve all had our heroes or someone we looked up to in life. We’ve admired their actions and felt awed by their presence. They are our leaders who we cheer for and sometimes aspire to be. By when t...
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Two Ideas That Can Play Nice With Each Other
One idea is good. Two are better. Two that can play nice with each other, best. First, someone mentioned how strange it feels to be alone in a building normally populated. Now there are only strang...
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Remembering Tarzan and a mentor I never met
Have you heard the old song “Sentimental Journey,” about a “sentimental journey back home”? I took one about two weeks ago, just in my mind. Somewhere there was a reference to Tarzan, and I started...
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Strength to satisfy the hunger
I was recently having lunch with a friend who had just graduated from college and was planning the next phase of his life. He shared with me that the process of reaching his personal American drea...
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Strength to be old and cool
I was recently looking through the Abbeville Meridional and saw an advertisement wishing a young man named, Chad, a happy birthday. There were two pictures of him, one as a Little League baseball ...
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Okay. So I am a dabbler
I’m a dabbler. What does that mean? A dabbler is a person with a runaway curiosity, someone who wants to know a little about a lot of things, and acts on this curiosity. That’s me. I devote a lot ...
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Mike Rizzuto "From Me to You"--a letter to President Obama
Editor’s note: Since there are no easy ways to get the opportunity to speak to President Barack Obama, and knowing just how thrilled our Commander in Chief was listening to the crooning of ex-Beat...
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