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Memory is a strange, strange thing for retirees. You may not be performing the job, necessarily, but you still imagine yourself as part of the job due to your memories and attachments you had. I got so excited about school starting in Grimes County that I actually prepared a transportation chart for my grandchild’s teacher, just in case he or she needed it and didn’t have time to make one.
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My twelve-year-old Basset Hound, Boudreaux, and I are very close and here are some of the things I have learned from him over the years. First, he and I are not getting any younger and there are certain things that either we can’t do anymore, or we just can’t do them as well as we used to.
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It was a sight for sore eyes to see the yellow school buses rolling in Navasota again. Their presence hints of a return to normalcy. They also reminded me of my back-toschool days at Helms Elementary.
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What is it about superstition that falls short with me? I don’t buy into any of it. I’ll sleep on the thirteenth floor of a hotel (even though it is labeled the 14th floor); I’ll walk under a ladder when I need to. I’ve spilt salt without tossing anything over my shoulder.
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Continuation from “Words of advice for Democrats” that appeared in the Aug. 26, edition of The Examiner.
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Not so long ago a tree limb fell in my yard after a big storm and I had to move it to the curb. It was a rather large limb and my wife asked me if I wanted her to help me move it.
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While Aristotle proposed that art imitates life, Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde believed that life imitates art more than the other way around. He received a boost from fellow Irishman George Bernard Shaw who said, “I have noticed that when a certain type of feature appears in painting and is admired as beautiful, it presently becomes common in nature; so that the Beatrices and Francescas in the picture galleries of one generation come to life as the parlor-maids and waitresses of the next.” No truer words were spoken when it comes to fashion.
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