OPINION | GARY SMITH: Milestone losses trigger nostalgic visits to the past
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Once upon a time ...
As a person who has spent most of his life at least dabbing in the written word as a means of effective communication, it occasionally pains me to have to admi…
First off, I've gotta admit, the eclipse was pretty cool.
I have always heard the past is prologue. Well, as my father used to say, I'm fixin' to find out.
I recently spent some time driving in Texas (if you keep moving, it's OK) and I've come away with two overwhelming thoughts: Build Back Better and Buc-ee's.
Once upon a time I had to serve in a chaperone-ish capacity for my youngest son's Boy Scout unit (Troop? Pack? Gang? OK, probably not gang) on a camping trip.
The hardest part is the irony, the almost deliberate difference between what was expected and the result, a contrast which often produces a chuckle. Except thi…
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I'm about to offer up a couple of opinions which I know, given the supercharged nature of the subject in these fraught times may be as controversial and as ris…
Got to give the good people of Iowa and New Hampshire credit, since they, apparently willingly, did something I'd have to really think long and hard about over…