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Something unusual happened at our house last week. We were watching television around 7 p.m. and the electricity went out. In the blackness, we searched for our phones to get some light going, then located the nearest flashlights and tried to figure out what was happening with the power. We wandered outside to see if the outage was wide-spread or just confined to our house.
Read moreIt will probably come as no surprise that my current favorite series on Acorn is about a columnist. It’s called “800 Words.” This sweet Australian-New Zealand comedy-drama is about a popular columnist who, after his wife’s sudden death, reacts by moving his teenage son and daughter to New Zealand, “the arse of the world.” George Turner purchases their new abode in the picturesque town of Weld from photos on the internet, giving credence to experts’ advice not to make major life changing decisions in the first year after a spouse dies!
Read moreThere are very few people, a very special few, for whom their initials become their name. Not in the way J.R. Ewing’s initials became his first name, but an entire set of initials. JFK, for example. I find it interesting that his initials for some reason or other lent themselves to becoming his identity.
Read moreMy gentleman friend and I will celebrate our eight year “dating anniversary” in May so I thought I knew him pretty well. However, a rather “puzzling” incident reminded me that you can’t really know everything that’s in someone’s heart!
Read moreIt seems like it was not so long ago when our lives were uprooted when Hurricane Ike came to town in September of 2009. I was teaching at the time and the school year was just underway when everything went, to put it nicely, “to heck in a handbasket”. As I recall, the situation was getting very serious very quickly and changing by the hour. However, as a Louisiana native, my experiences thus far had been a collective of minor hurricanes and the worst that would happen would be a power outage for a couple of days, nothing more. In fact, my south Louisiana relatives routinely hosted Hurricane Parties to enjoy a few days off from work.
Read moreI always wanted to dance well. Growing up in the era of The Monkey, The Swim, The Watusi and other crazy dances, awkward as they felt, they looked like fun and I tried my hand at them numerous times. I had limited success with the Texas Two-Step and the Cotton-Eyed Joe, which is to say that I’ve never actually injured anyone while attempting to navigate around a dance floor.
Read moreWhen I woke up this morning (Friday, Jan. 22), there was one special reason to celebrate. There are always many reasons to celebrate when you wake up in the morning, but today, there was an extra special reason.
Read moreColin Powell once said, “A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.” By this standard I think I look pretty darn good! Neither my wife or I are originally from Navasota and we don’t have even one relative in town. We came here following our teaching jobs, but what keeps us here are our dear friends.
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