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This week, we’ll start with apologies to John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buck Owens, all of the folks out there who know how to write lyrics to a song, and anybody and everybody who likes good music...
Just got home in Illinois, freezin’ cold outdoors, oh boy!
Tried to sit down, take...
Let’s start off this week with an item from the “I’m kind of jealous” category...
...if you can believe what you see online (and that would be practically everything...right?)...a friend had an opportunity to meet John Prine...
...moving on...with an item from the “This is kind of sad” category...
Sometimes, some ideas are, well, kind of dumb...
...we’ll get back to being dumb in a word or two. And trust me, your writer is an expert at being dumb. Before we get to that, just a couple of thoughts...
...so the New England Patriots are back in the Big Game. Again. And they will be playing the...
One just never knows what one might find when a clean up project starts...
...such was the story last week at The Paragraph Factory. During a bit of cleaning up and sorting, folks came across a box filled with a whole bunch of old photographs, a veritable plethora of pictures. Some other treasures...
Nope. No partridge in a pear tree. Looked just to make sure. Not a feathered creature to be seen.
This little bit of a story has its origins on the fifth day after Christmas, when my true love and I decided to go on a Sunday afternoon drive through the countryside. Besides, given that it was the...
“There was once a Velveteen Rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.”
Perhaps you might recognize the opening sentence from “The Velveteen Rabbit,” which was written by Margery Williams.
With apologies to Ms. Williams, allow me to share a story which began on a cold and gray morning...
Sometimes, inspiration flies overhead, or falls from above...or, maybe, just happens to be seen in a tree...
Another weekly deadline was approaching, and yours truly was coming up empty when pondering what to write about for this week.
I’m thinking I was pretty much worn out from all the work which...
This week, dear readers, you have an opportunity to experience a landmark chapter in the history of this column with the debut of our first nature documentary.
As far as I know, the newspaper has never presented a nature documentary. I suppose that’s mainly because it would be a little difficult to...
This last week Americans recognized the end of World War I, Nov. 11, 1918, commonly referenced in history books as “The Great War.”
Millions of Europeans died in this conflict, along with large numbers of Americans who sailed across the Atlantic to join in. Others sustained wounds physical and...
One never knows what one might get to talk about on election night at the Union County Courthouse in Jonesboro.
Did you know there was an election last week? Mercifully, the election silly season has come to an end, and with it the seemingly never-ending cycle of absolutely horrible election...
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