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Cooling temps? Fall breezes? When pigskins fly!
Randy Sheridan
To the rabid football fan, it’s a feeling akin to having been under water and holding your breath as long as you can as you wait for opening-game day. As August comes to a ...
Randy SheridanTo the rabid football fan, it’s a feeling akin to having been under water and holding your breath as long as you can as you wait for opening-game day. As August comes to a ...
Worth recalling what a great egg the chicken is
Don Newbury
Humpty Dumpty’s great fall comes across as mere child’s play against the backdrop of today’s serious egg issues. Egg farmers in the dell and beyond are suffering negative publicity, stroked broadly with brushes that, ...
Don NewburyHumpty Dumpty’s great fall comes across as mere child’s play against the backdrop of today’s serious egg issues. Egg farmers in the dell and beyond are suffering negative publicity, stroked broadly with brushes that, ...
Texans love cruising the Caribbean
Don Newbury
A cynic whose name “makes no never-mind” predicted one decade ago that this could be “one of those centuries when everything goes wrong.”
He (or was it she?) has been right far more times than ...
Don NewburyA cynic whose name “makes no never-mind” predicted one decade ago that this could be “one of those centuries when everything goes wrong.”
He (or was it she?) has been right far more times than ...
Laughter as the best antidote is no joke
Randy Sheridan
Are you sick? Emotionally drained? Or just plain ol’ depressed? Well, right up front I will confess to you that I’m not a doctor, and I’m not prescribing anything — it’s just a strenuously ...
Randy SheridanAre you sick? Emotionally drained? Or just plain ol’ depressed? Well, right up front I will confess to you that I’m not a doctor, and I’m not prescribing anything — it’s just a strenuously ...
Universities really do deal in failure. Their own
Don Newbury
Who’da thought it? Despite college graduation rates being lower than we’d like, over the long haul, a higher percentage of colleges than students have failed.
In Texas, for every cornerstone at an institution still functioning, ...
Don NewburyWho’da thought it? Despite college graduation rates being lower than we’d like, over the long haul, a higher percentage of colleges than students have failed.
In Texas, for every cornerstone at an institution still functioning, ...
Pardon me while I tiptoe through the tool-ips
Randy Sheridan
Growing up in the home of a jack-of-all-trades was probably one of the best gifts given to me as a boy. My father would attempt just about any project at least once. He could ...
Randy SheridanGrowing up in the home of a jack-of-all-trades was probably one of the best gifts given to me as a boy. My father would attempt just about any project at least once. He could ...
Words and context can be powerful vehicles
Don Newbury
Most hunters are so gung-ho, they’ll hunt anything that’ll run from ’em.
Similarly, TV news folks salivate at the prospect of all-out chases to pluck credible opinions on controversial topics.
That was the case recently when ...
Don NewburyMost hunters are so gung-ho, they’ll hunt anything that’ll run from ’em.
Similarly, TV news folks salivate at the prospect of all-out chases to pluck credible opinions on controversial topics.
That was the case recently when ...
Make this point in life — no matter how old — your stage
Randy Sheridan
A missionary acquaintance of mine in Europe told me about a retired friend of his who had once been a four-star general in the French army.
“I used to command 50,000 men, the retired soldier ...
Randy SheridanA missionary acquaintance of mine in Europe told me about a retired friend of his who had once been a four-star general in the French army.
“I used to command 50,000 men, the retired soldier ...
Critics ready to close the book on King James
Don Newbury
July can be both hazy and crazy, and my Uncle Mort’s 98th birthday party down in the thicket fits both of the rhyming words.
Pride-swollen that he used only six of his 10 minutes allotted ...
Don NewburyJuly can be both hazy and crazy, and my Uncle Mort’s 98th birthday party down in the thicket fits both of the rhyming words.
Pride-swollen that he used only six of his 10 minutes allotted ...
July’s green scene is peachy keen
Randy Sheridan
Green in July! Everything is green, very green. The grass is like spring grass, healthy and alive. It has to be mowed once a week at least because with all the rain that we ...
Randy SheridanGreen in July! Everything is green, very green. The grass is like spring grass, healthy and alive. It has to be mowed once a week at least because with all the rain that we ...
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