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The Day High School Baseball Shut Down
Thursday, March 12, 2020 – 8:25 text from Kelly Parker – “McAllen is unable to come to the tournament. Alexander vs McAllen at 7:30...
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R.I.P. Mike Shull
I’m not sure what house Mike Shull lived in when we were growing up. He was in the extended neighborhood, so we occasionally ended up at...
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My visit to East Berlin
Day 41: West Berlin - Sunday, July 10, 1988 We knew we'd had a weird day the day before when Alan told me he'd dreamed of shoving...
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the Fourth of July.... in Rome
Day 35: Munich train station - Monday, July 4, 1988 When we gathered at the Munich train station, we found an overbooked midnight train...
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Me in London 32 years ago
In June of 1988, I went to Europe with 36 others Aggies on the pretense of studying international finance. Our professor encouraged to...
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I MISS CONCERTS: WARREN ZEVON (The “Werewolves of London” guy)
(This is a writeup of the second time I saw Zevon in concert.) (Why am I writing about this show instead of the first time I saw Zevon?...
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SUNDAY AFTERNOON AFTER THE DEMONSTRATIONS
Saturday night, my son David spent the night with my daughter Emily, her husband Refeal, and their fellow boarder Robert. Sunday...
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I GET THAT
My wife and I were never interested in finding out the gender of our children before they were born. It was too much like opening...
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BACK TO SCHOOL
The coronavirus has certainly turned the world sideways. Civilization has effectively stopped in its tracks trying to limit the...
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VIRGIL PETERSON, LEGEND
(Virgil Peterson passed away two years ago today, on May 11, 2018. I wanted to remember my friend today.) When my daughter Emily played...
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WILL ROGERS SYNDROME
"All I know is what I read in the papers" – Will Rogers Will Rogers was many things. Remembered today largely as a speaker of homespun...
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