Friday's Post
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Clowns don’t worry about impulse control
I’ll call him Flip but that wasn’t his real name. He was a part-time clown who worked at dirt racetracks, fairs, rodeos and carnivals during the 1960s. He was a hard drinker with a kind heart and a tortured body. By today’s standards, he would be considered bi-polar with his emotional highs and lows.
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Fond memories of six rooms and a path
Two country music performers, Bobby Bare and Billy Edd Wheeler, made lots of money several years ago with a cute little song about outhouses. Entitled “Ode to The Little Brown Shack Out Back,” the song is a funny ditty about the memories many of us have of growing up without indoor plumbing. You can find it on YouTube.
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A story of drug addiction…and hope
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” These famous words of American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr have been around a long time. I have always admired their practicality but now I am aware of their power.
- Have you ever been out swarping around? I mentioned this expression to a middle-aged friend and he smiled and said he hadn’t heard it since his grandmother used it to scold him as a teenager. What exactly is “swarping around”?
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There ought to be a nickname hall of fame
We have halls of fame for athletes, alumni, musicians and politicians, among others, but is there one for nicknames? If so, I hereby nominate my hometown of Hitchins in Carter County for enshrinement in that place of honor.
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Easter spirit lives in stories of sacrifice
My daughter Kally shared a story at church on Easter Sunday that touched the hearts of everyone who heard it. It seems there was a one-room school in the mountains of Virginia where the boys were so rough that no teacher had been able to handle them.
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The sheriff wore a white hat … and white boots!
The first time I saw him I thought he was an ice cream truck driver. He was wearing a big white hat, a white jump suit and white boots. Frankly, he didn’t look like a lawman but he was the center of attention as he strolled across the newsroom of a daily newspaper in a nearby state.
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Living with your uncle can have advantages
Today I’m sharing a story about how I learned not to judge a book by its cover. My subject was an average guy, a typical college student, not a flashy dresser. But he was different from the rest of us guys in that freshman speech class so long ago at what is now Ashland Community and Technical College.
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Grandkids are more fun than their parents
I warned you several weeks ago that I would be looking to my grandchildren for help with this column, especially to distract me from all of the serious stuff I’ve been thinking and writing about.
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Who really is our brother’s keeper?
The outpouring of compassion toward East Kentucky’s tornado victims has been awesome, particularly in this community. We’ve seen churches, community organizations, students and just plain folks constantly coming up with creative, thoughtful ways to ease the suffering of those who have lost loved ones and their life’s possessions.
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