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The Librarian Did It

Librarians have a lot to answer for. It’s because of them I embarked on a life of crime. Growing up in a tiny, rural South Texas farming ...

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Life’s a Shell Game

We live in a world that strives for perfection. The fashion, business and technology, cosmetics, lifestyles and, of course, sports indust...

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The Gift of Kindness

We spend our lives accumulating. This collecting is an essential part of our memory-building process. There are items from school activit...

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The Bucket Woman

I’m a huge fan of the 1990s British sitcom “Keeping Up Appearances,” starring Patricia Routledge as consummate social climber Hyacinth Bu...

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Tale of the Catchy Phrase

April is a lovely and distinctive month in the Dallas. Lawns are shedding their winter doldrums and treating everyone to the beauty of re...

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The Good Old Days

When exactly were The Good Old Days? To hear some tell it, in The Good Old Days everyone always told the truth, paid their debts, used go...

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Those Texas Baby Blues

When the bluebonnets carpet Texas roadsides and fields each spring, every parent or grandparent with a cell phone is on the lookout for t...

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Homeownership–A Love Story

It’s February, and naturally our thoughts turn to love. Like all good love stories, the ones that grow with time are the best. In 1965, m...

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Why We Make, and Fail, Our New Year’s Resolutions

Every New Year’s, we embrace all the possibilities the next 12 months place before us by making resolutions. We promise ourselves we’ll l...

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