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The Compassionate Friends: Remembering our children
On Sunday, our local chapter of The Compassionate Friends held its annual Candlelighting and Memorial Service, and as usual the weather didn’t want to cooperate. In years past, we have had freezing temperatures, gale-force winds and varying amounts of precipitation on top of the cold …
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Extreme blushing is no cause for alarm
I guess I’ll never outgrow it but it certainly hasn’t bothered me to live with it. It never fails: happy, sad, mad, embarrassed, near tears, in tears (happy or sad), people staring or being the subject of an overheard conversation — I can turn beet …
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A closet hoarder
After what seems like an eternity, I was finally able to close on my new home this week. It has been a long, slow process and seemed that if anything could’ve gone wrong — it did. Buying a new home sounds like a lot more …
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Name Chataunga explained
With faith, you can move mountains. You can also move a mountain, at least on paper, by using a computer keyboard — as I did last week. In a column about Chataunga Mountain, I wrote that the mountain formerly known as Chataunga is now known …
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My multiple personalities
Just when the reckoning came is still unclear, but at some point I knew: I have multiple personalities. It was pretty much into my adulthood, or better known as four children later, that the reality of that hit home. In hindsight, there were plenty of …
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On the edge of our own fiscal cliff
OK, somebody needs to take away my wallet for the next few weeks, or Gary may be pushing me off our own little fiscal cliff. On Saturday morning, Gary and I took Kaylee to Jonesboro to do a little Christmas shopping (you know, at all …
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Animosity for J.R. still abounds
Several months have passed since I began watching the original “Dallas” series from the beginning and my feelings for Mr. J.R. Ewing haven’t changed since I first wrote about visiting SouthFork Ranch and buying the DVD boxed set of the first and second seasons. While …
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Chataunga, now Brock, Mountain
Chataunga Mountain has been moved about considerably on maps, being placed all the way from 25 miles to 71 miles from its exact location, according to an article, “Chataunga Mountain and the Cherokee Line” by Virginia McAdams in the Independence County Chronicle’s January 1961 edition …
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Lessons from my 12-year-old
My laptop computer has been having some issues for months. It stopped connecting to the Internet, the sound quit working and appeared to be plagued with viruses despite having anti-virus software installed. From time to time I would try to fix it but would eventually …
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2012 deadline nears
It’s not quite time for the new year to roll in, but close enough to tell you that I have not accomplished my 2012 resolutions of losing weight, saving money, getting organized, etc. As it stands right now, I am a big fat loser. It’s …
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Anniversaries and conspiracies
While many Americans were considering all they had to be thankful for and/or making shopping lists, there was an anniversary that went largely unnoticed amidst all the Black Friday hoopla, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, the 35th president …
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’Tis the season to be early
We all know Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier every year in part due to retailers who bombard shoppers with all the fa-la-la-la of the season even when the long days of summer are still in the air or channels like Hallmark or Lifetime …
