Wednesday'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 1960’s. 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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Has marriage gone out of style?
Movie and television stars are doing it. Rock music stars are doing it. More of our friends and neighbors and other folks around us are doing it. What are they doing? They are choosing to live together instead of getting married in the conventional sense.
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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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An unhappy tale, but worth the telling
Be warned that this true story does not have a happy ending. We had never laid eyes on each other. I had heard her first name but all I knew was that she was coming to live temporarily with one of my family members in another county.
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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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All of life’s lessons don’t come from books
Today I’m sharing a story about how I learned not to judge a book by its cover or a person by their current circumstances. 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. It wasn’t long ago our home phone rang in late afternoon and my wife answered.
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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 area. 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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Clowns don’t worry about impulse control
