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My 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.
Read moreA couple of years ago, I heard someone compare the school year to a plane ride.
Read more“COVID incarceration proves to be false imprisonment.” That is what this week’s Connie’s Corner headline was supposed to be. Until I received the results of my “second opinion” test, I was 99.99% certain that I did not have Covid-19 and was the victim of a false positive. Taking steps to retest, I had agreed to accept the results and let it go if they came back positive too. They did and I lied.
Read moreMark Twain is famously quoted as saying “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” This event happened in the 1890’s when Twain was travelling abroad. Some folks noticed his absence and leaped to the conclusion that he was dead (seriously?). Well, actress Tanya Roberts is one person who can feel Twain’s pain. Or, more accurately, could have felt it.
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