My wife and I moved to Austin in the summer of 1984. It was hot then, no surprise; it’s even hotter now. Maybe it just didn’t bother then us as much, I don’t know. I do know the winters then were much colder. That first winter we had three significant snowfalls, including one of thirteen…
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Thoughts at Seventy-Seven
Life was very much fun as a child in what we now call Appalachia, the only part of the country I ever knew. Then time just zoomed by so quickly during my teens. I was not an athlete, was not musically adept, so with no traditional area of standing out, I focused on being reasonably…
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Doing a Second Audio Book
Today, November 12th, at eleven o'clock a.m, I am scheduled for the final recording session at "The Roost," my son Jimmy's recording studio. This will be our second audio book ... the first one being Contact Sport. This one, Reunion, has been extremely emotional since the story is, if I may use a term that…
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The Battle for West Virginia’s Senate Seat
As a native of West Virginia, and one who came of age there, returning for junior high and high school (after my parents moved to and from small towns of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia), I feel compelled to offer some comments about the state of the senate race in the state. Why, would you…
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