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The sickening thud took our breath away. It was 2001, and my wife and I were in a tiny town in Wyoming on vacation with friends. Like all rambunctious toddlers, their little boy was a bolt of energy. He raced across the driveway. Jumping. Laughing. Beaming with...
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My earliest Valentine’s Day memories live in the blissful wonderland of elementary school. I remember a particular shoebox that I decorated in the first or second grade—the ones that we made to hold our stash of mushy, anxious scribbles. My box was crimson red with...
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“To everything…there is a season.” I conveniently left out the “turn, turn, turn” part, but I’m sure that you mentally supplied it, because who couldn’t, right? The Byrds popularized this ancient proverbial concept in 1965, and since then, it’s been tunefully bouncing...
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I’m not sure how it happened, but somewhat like Rip Van Winkle, I think I nodded off for most of the year and woke up in the wonderland of glowing Christmas crèches and merry music filling the air with good cheer. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the season...
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It was a cool, crisp morning in the fall of 1978. My brother was nestled in my mom’s tummy, and I was meandering in the back of our red Plymouth Roadrunner. I loved to perch in the middle of the back seat and poke my head up to survey the scenery. In a flash, we were...
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Creeper, Zombie Mist, Heartbleed, My Doom and Storm Worm. Hmmmm. The latest no-you-can’t-have-those video games? No. The scary movies coming to a theater near you for the Halloween season? Nope. A new series of novels perched on your most endearing introvert’s...
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Wow, the summer flew by! Here were are in September, and the extracurricular activities are in full flutter. The kids have been shooting selfies and groupies all summer long, and now it’s your turn for some time behind the camera. And, since it’s Texas,...
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By Richard Singleton A few things in life occasionally make me feel old: the sprinkling of gray in my hair, the wave of whimsical suggestions that I dye my beard and the ponderous aching in my back after church softball. Actually, these just make the contenders...
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By Richard Singleton Your home data storage options Summer is flying by, and the only thing growing faster than your electric bill is the massive digital history book of pics piling up on all your devices. Oh, and that mountainous summit of schoolwork that...
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By Richard Singleton It’s summer time! Time for iced tea and lemonade. Time for hammocks and vacations. Time for road trips and youth camps. Time for bursting thermometers and slathering on enough sunscreen to create a minor upheaval of the global economy. ...
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By Richard Singleton Summer is upon us and that means that soon our kids will have more time on their hands than almost any time of the year. What might be more important than the time on their hands are the tech devices in their hands. But, before we get to...
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I don’t remember the details. I was just five, but at some point before I donned my snazzy new Hush Puppies and traipsed off to school, I knew a couple of things: 1) I knew how to tie my own shoes, perhaps with a little help, and 2) I knew that there wasn’t much else...
