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Garage Sale Social Commentary
Our neighborhood association sponsored a garage sale over the weekend, i.e., individual homes were invited to have their own sales and the association would supply a yard sign and advertising on...
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Laughs at Her Own Jokes
I have an amazing ability to entertain myself. I believe it comes from being raised as an only child in a very small town before daycare, pre-school and kindergarten. My first organized social group...
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Knock Knock – who’s there? The Irish, that’s who
Irish Senator David Norris is a controversial politician who is often called the father of Ireland’s gay rights campaign spanning the past forty years. He is seventy years old and yesterday he lived...
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Call for Submissions: Second Annual Cyberspace Awards for Memorable Quotes
Well, it’s that time of the year again – time flies when you’re having fun – a penny saved is a penny earned. Aha! We are off and running for the Second Annual Cyberspace Awards for Memorable Quotes....
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The Charleston Massacre
The Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut. An army training center in Fort Hood, Texas. The Washington, DC Navy Yard. A movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The Sikh Temple in Oak Creek,...
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Cross Over the Bridge
Traveling to East Tennessee last week, Teresa and I listened to a collection of Patti Page hits. One of the songs she sang in this album which was recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1997 was Cross Over the...
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OMG – I Forgot to Send in My Memorable Quote for the Contest
Greetings, cyberspace followers: Some of my people have neglected to send in their quotes for the Second Annual Cyberspace Memorable Quotes contest! Deadline is today June 30th at midnight – whenever...
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The Suspense is Making Me Crazy
The long one-day wait is over, and the Judge has made her final selections; but this year’s entries were so extraordinary she decided to publish the Top Ten in both categories. Drum roll, please....
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Extenuating Circumstances
Rules are made to be broken – or, at least, bended a little bit. A new category called Creativity has been added to the 2015 Second Annual Cyberspace Memorable Quotes Contest and because artistic...
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Reflections on a Flag
Within the span of twenty-four days the people of the state of South Carolina have had an opportunity to witness victories over hatred and fear and unkindness with acts of love and forgiveness and good...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good: This past Thursday evening a small group of LGBT activists met at a local restaurant in Columbia, South Carolina to celebrate with Jim Obergefell, one of the plaintiffs in the recent...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. via The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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Laughs at Her Own Jokes
I have an amazing ability to entertain myself. I believe it comes from being raised as an only child in a very small town before daycare, pre-school and kindergarten. My first organized social group...
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Learning New Tricks from Old Dogs
From the time I was five or six years old growing up in rural southeast Texas in the 1950s, my daddy used to take me with him to hunt quail during what I remember as a relatively short season in the...
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Learning New Tricks from Old Dogs
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Knock Knock – who’s there? The Irish, that’s who
Irish Senator David Norris is a controversial politician who is often called the father of Ireland’s gay rights campaign spanning the past forty years. He is seventy years old and yesterday he lived...
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In this Case, Fiction is Stranger than Truth
Usually whenever I do a reading from one of my nonfiction books, someone raises a hand during the q & a to ask, “Yes, but why don’t you write fiction?” or “Have you ever thought about writing...
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Dancing with Destiny
In 1999 the paths of two of the most recognized women athletes in the world crossed twice in different stages of their tennis careers. Steffi Graf was twenty-nine years old and was about to retire...
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Sister Act (2015)
Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister, And Lord help the sister who comes between me and my (slam). Actually, Irving Berlin’s lyrics in the 1954 romantic musical White Christmas...
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Both Have Prevailed
Venus Williams and her little sister Serena For the past seventeen years the Williams sisters have carried the heavy burden of American tennis on their shoulders, and the load has never been an easy...
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