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Gimble’s gift: Swing legend brings out best in other musicians
Friday, February 26, 2010 |
One night in 1983 I found myself in the long-since defunct Indigo’s Bar and Grille.
Blind insight
Friday, December 11, 2009 |
H.E. McKelva was blinded at 19-years-of-age after being struck by buckshot in a gun battle on a bleak and weary night while riding in a posse in the deep pine forest that surrounds Shreveport, La.
Health care bill dredges memories of FDA reform
Monday, August 10, 2009
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Halloween Day of 1995 was a memorable moment for me.
As Faulk learned, Cronkite was giving behind the scenes
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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I first met John Henry Faulk when I was a young writer covering the late, great, Highland Lakes Festival of Music and the Arts.
And that’s the way it use to be
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
Not so long ago I was sitting in a journalism workshop when I heard a young upstart spouting off a notion concerning the Internet that I considered to be way out of the bounds of traditional news ethics.
Charles and LaNell Edwards: A dynamic duo
Thursday, July 9, 2009 |
A while back, a youthful political hopeful gave me a ring to “feel out” the community, as well as your local newspaper editor.
A few thoughts about Landaker from someone that knows him… me
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 |
It doesn’t take a one-armed genius to understand that Pedernales Electric Cooperative has been the picture of egomaniacal, self-serving, disingenuous and even dishonest behavior.
Thoughts from the Father of our Nation
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 |
If confronted with a choice between eloquence or wisdom, I would choose wisdom every time.
ullying: Stick and stones may break bones, but words can truly scar you
Thursday, June 25, 2009 |
I remember the first day of Kindergarten like it was yesterday.
My two beautiful blue stars and a gold one
Monday, May 18, 2009
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I was a wee sprite during the 1960s, living on a rural East Texas farm where television reception was a bit of a hit and miss affair for the most part.