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Dinner chat runs south
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Last Updated: 2:35 PM 03/10/10 - A few months ago when Poet, the free-lance wanderer that he is, found himself passing through my neck of the South, he called up, then turned up at my front door then plopped down in my guest room for a few days. (Full Story) |
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Newspapers need us, and we need them to survive
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Last Updated: 1:06 PM 02/23/10 - In the home in which I grew up, the daily newspaper was almost as important to our everyday lives as the Bible. (Full Story) |
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Southern grits meet Vegas glitz
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Last Updated: 9:32 AM 02/16/10 - Like any self-respecting Southerner, it’s hard for me to pass up reading a well-written obituary. Especially when it runs in the Wall Street Journal and begins with she was “a dash of Southern class in a raucous old boys club.” (Full Story) |
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Nothing replaces the comfort of simple things
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Last Updated: 8:53 AM 02/09/10 - It is the absence of simple things that has made life so complicated. Those simple things cost nothing yet can make you feel like a million bucks. (Full Story) |
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I’m impressed by ghosts of Southern writers
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Last Updated: 9:34 AM 02/05/10 - When our friendship was new and still most interesting, Poet sought to impress me. But when the new wore off, Poet cast me into the ring with his other friends who are familiar and comfortable so there is no longer a need to impress. (Full Story) |
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Full moons are quite intriguing
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Last Updated: 12:29 PM 02/01/10 - For some reason, I’ve always loved full moons. Every time I see one, I stop in my tracks, fully absorb and appreciate its beauty and then thank the good Lord that I lived to see another beautiful full moon. (Full Story) |
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I was not among my home folks
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Last Updated: 12:29 PM 02/01/10 - There’s nothing like a trip to Hollywood to remind you of the fantasies that grow there as rapidly as kudzu grows in Southern summers. There, I often find people who are not exactly my people. (Full Story) |
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Irish courage makes me proud
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Last Updated: 12:29 PM 02/01/10 - The dawn was barely breaking, the morning just beginning to wrestle the new day away from the black night as the train traveled with a jolting purpose from Dublin to Belfast. (Full Story) |
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The torch passes from one old soul to another
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Last Updated: 12:29 PM 02/01/10 - Sometimes two old souls can find each other and form a friendship that is anchored in rock solid respect and like thinking. (Full Story) |
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Some people are simply too entertaining
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Last Updated: 12:29 PM 02/01/10 - It wasn’t intended to be a long conversation, but I should have known better than that. No call to Poet is ever abbreviated. (Full Story) |
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