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The happiness of these days has been paid for by others, leaving us in debt not just to the past but to the future – for it, too, in all it complexity and sophistication, will have to be built on bedrock. On duty, honor, country.
Read moreDon’t let taxes get you down This actually ran as a Letter to the Editor in a Wichita Falls newspaper) Can you identify with this guy?
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Some of you may know that I went traveling this past weekend — up to St Louis ’s Missouri. It’s a long trip up I-44 and back, but I made it. Due to my old age, I took my personal doctor, Ron, and my private nurse, Pat, with me. It was a hard trip but worth it.
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• I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
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THE EYE OF THE STORM Sunday morning at our house is a little like Dante’s Inferno. A great lament goes up among the children when they discover someone else has gone before them into the water chamber. In a few moments I will hear the hum of hair dryers and the shouts of, “Has anybody seen my brush?” I will hear a squeal of discovery, and then the one using the hair dryer will say, “I couldn’t find mine. Why can’t I use it? Come on, give it back!”
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