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Veteran's Day as Bittersweet
From the movie, "The Thin Red Line"...and possibly the book but I haven't read it: "This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it...
Dec 12, 20211 min read
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This is the Place You Want to Tell People About...and You Kind of Don't!
To be sure, one of this area’s best-kept, secret music venues is the Shreveport House Concert Series. Founded in 2004, the Shreveport...
Dec 12, 20211 min read
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The Price of Honor – A Documentary on the Honor Killing of Amina and Sarah Said
On the evening of January 1, 2008, the Irving, Texas 911 department received a frantic call from Sarah Said, whose last words were, “Oh...
Dec 9, 20213 min read
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IN A MOMENT OF TIME
IN A MOMENT OF TIME I was sitting with my back to the door, editing a letter to a client, when I heard a voice say, "Excuse me, but the...
Dec 9, 202112 min read
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LOVE ON LINE
First Published in , Shreveport, LA, May 23, 1997. (For readers not familiar with Shreveport, Line Ave. is a major thoroughfare; much of...
Dec 9, 20213 min read
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I Know Where Fat Comes From
First Published in The Times, Shreveport, LA. I Know Where Fat Comes From I have no doubt that this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine will...
Dec 9, 20213 min read
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A Good Woman Will Unlock Her Man’s Car Door
First published in The Times, Shreveport, LA, November 25, 1994 A Good Woman Will Unlock Her Man’s Car Door Having been single a while, I...
Dec 9, 20212 min read
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Aren't His Medals Shiny?
Hello? Oh yes, why don't you come on in? I've been expecting you. It isn't often someone comes to visit and talk about Billy. Here,...
Dec 9, 20216 min read
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On Being Sad
On Being Sad Sadness never ends, but happiness does Brazilian love song “You know, I think I’ve always been sad.” Her words came across...
Dec 7, 20213 min read
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The Need for Beauty
It’s that moment, that very brief moment, when beauty overtakes us, when we pause in our hasty moving from one spot to another,...
Dec 7, 20212 min read
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Dating's Dirty Little Secret
Yeah, you’ve done it. Sure you have, at one time or another. The Drive-By. It may have been an afterthought or planned with the precision...
Dec 7, 20212 min read
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