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I saw my good friend Danny McDougal this past week and had a great visit. He is one of the most brilliant people I know. The reason I know this is because Danny and I agree on almost every political issue. Our friendship began over half a century ago when he became my banker…. even loaned me some money. I am not sure I ever paid it back but he has either forgotten about it or given up on me.
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Bud Yount was a great baseball player and a very good friend of mine. We really miss his weekly visits to the Advocate. While doing some research I found the following story about Bud’s signing with the New York Yankees….
Read moreLast week I wrote about getting rid of the itch. This disease is sort of like getting rid of ISIS. You felt like you had gotten rid of it only to discover next week that it was back in full force. Such was my battle in the 1940s with the itch infections. Now, here we sit and listen with a worried feeling as our President tries to explain how we managed to turn our “victory” in Afghanistan into a sudden loss. Just like the itch. Afghanistan is back. A time of shame for our country. A week of regrets for the thousands of citizens who served our armed forces during that long 20 years of war. A time of concern as we try to figure out how to get our citizens and those friendly Afghans that were helpful to us out of that unhappy place.
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School has started back and I wanted to share an old teacher’s contract for a Wisconsin School District that was used 100 years ago.
Read moreIt was windy and lonely looking. And it was cold that day, like it was this last winter. Yep, the spot being perused by my brother Gerald and I was the place where we had lived once upon a time a long time ago. An old grocery store site with a small apartment in the back—all gone now. Most of Centrahoma was gone too. My thoughts went back to one night back in 1942.
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We enjoyed the story about the third-grade teacher who asked her students to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence. Molly said, “My family went to the New York City Zoo and we saw all the animals. It was fascinating.” The teacher said, “That was good, but I wanted you to use the word “fascinate.”
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The older I get the more I think about the “good old days.” And they in fact were the good old days. Awhile back our good friend Sue Clark Adams shared the following:
Read moreOne of the results of this Covid was Pat and I have watched a lot more movies here at home than normal. One would think when you glance background that I would have seen all the movies that I should. My tenure at Stonewall Schools (1944-1952) and before that my fellowships at Centrahoma should have been enough. But I must reluctantly admit most of what I know today I learned in the Main Theatre at Stonewall. Covid and the coldest winter ever gave me some chance to work on my “Master’s Degree” in movie watching.
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