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Encounter with an NBA player at a San Antonio post office . . .
Personal ethics demand that I offer a disclaimer before beginning this posting: I am not a fan of professional sports. I am not a fan of football, baseball, basketball, cricket, badminton,...
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Kudos to Robert Rivard, editor, S. A. Express-News . . .
Kudos to Robert Rivard, the editor of the San Antonio Express-News, for his Metro article on Sunday, July 5, 2009. His article was titled “As Jackson is recalled, don’t forget his victims.” This...
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Letter to the editor, SA Express-News, re: Reparations . . .
The following statement is in the interest of full disclosure: I have not submitted this letter to the editor for possible publication, nor will I submit it. I am satisfied with its publication on Word...
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On self-defense and wasp spray . . .
I recently received an e-mail from one of my princess daughters, the one that lives, loves and works in Virginia. The e-mail included a link to an on-line movie that extolled the value of using wasp...
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Age 14—fired from my paperboy job . . .
For several months I served my community as a teenage paperboy, delivering the daily publications of the Commercial Dispatch, a small daily newspaper in a small town—Columbus, Mississippi. For those...
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Letter to the editor, Express-News: Pierre shudderd . . .
I don’t deliberately look for gaffes in my readings, regardless of the publication or the topic—they just seem to draw my attention. I’m unsure whether that’s a gift or a character fault. I overlook...
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Re: Congress, illegal immigration & missing fingers . . .
This posting consists of an e-mail (and my response) that I received from a friend of my daughter, one that I’ve never met, but I feel that I know the writer well through the e-mail. This is the...
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Letter to the editor, SA Express-news: On polls . . .
This letter was not published because it was not presented for the editor’s review—it was not presented to him because, based on considerable personal experience accumulated over a period of many...
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Dear Abby poem, a letter from those beyond . . .
The lines that follow were excerpted from Hamlet’s soliloquy in Shakespeare’s play: To die, to sleep, to sleep,| perchance to dream; Aye, there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may...
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Letter to the editor, San Antonio Express-news: Obama’s reeling . . .
A letter from a reader of the San Antonio Express-News prompted this posting. The letter was printed in the paper’s Metro Section (Your Turn) January 22, 2010, In the interest of full disclosure, I...
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Letter to the editor, San Antonio Light—Big trees and big gaffes . . .
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT: The San Antonio Light, a daily afternoon and Sunday morning newspaper in San Antonio, Texas began as the San Antonio Surprise in 1881. The paper subsequently morphed through a series...
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Two women make different choices . . .
This posting is a letter that I submitted to the editors of the San Antonio Light way back in 1992, and in the interest of full disclosure I must admit that it was never published. Apparently my letter...
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To lay, or to lie—that is the question . . .
And this is the answer: Hens lay—people lie. The misuse of lay and lie is one of my pet peeves, perhaps the pettiest and peeviest of all. We hear the verbs misused in every venue—we see it printed in...
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How I met Henry David Thoreau . . .
At some point during the decade of the 1970s I read an article in the San Antonio Light, one of San Antonio’s daily newspapers, a report of an interview conducted by a Light reporter with a...
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Letter to the editor, Express-News—S. A. cop shoots man with knife . . .
Letter to the editor, Express—News March 10, 2010 P.O. Box 2171 San Antonio TX 78297 Please accept my compliments for your report on the use of a hitherto unknown weapon available to our police...
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Florida find—lifeless legs in landfill . . .
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/jarred-mitchell-harrell-charged-in-slaying-of-7-year-old-florida-girl-somer-thompson/19416157 The following item was taken from the above URL : ORANGE PARK, Fla....
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Postcript to “Mayhem on Delaware campus”:
Postscript to “Mayhem on Delaware campus” . . . A six-year old boy in a Delaware school was recently sentenced to a five-day suspension and 45 days in a reform school for bringing a Cub Scout camping...
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I remember Earl Wilson . . .
I remember Earl Wilson . . . The purpose of this posting is to introduce Earl Wilson to the multitudes of people that were not around to enjoy his contributions to our society through his varied...
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Ann Landers—The station . . .
This posting is a letter to Ann Landers and her response to the letter writer. Robert J. Hastings’ The Station may be found on the internet with some variations, but the story and its message are...
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A letter to my brother Larry (1919-1983) . . .
Dear Larry, I know this will surprise you because the only other letter you’ve received from me was dated 64 years ago. Yep, I was only 12 years old when I asked you to take pity on an exhausted,...
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Cheap tomatoes—si, o no?
This posting is one of an e-mail I received recently from a family member. A quick check of http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/tomatoes.asp shows that the truth of the letter is undetermined....
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Letter to the editor, McAllen Monitor, from a double-dipper . . .
I wrote this letter to the editor of the McAllen Monitor while employed with the U.S. Customs Service in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. I spent twelve years on the Mexican border (1971–1983) as a Customs...
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Listen up, San Antonio! More road rage . . .
On July 27, just a few days ago, I posted a story about road rage and San Antonio drivers, and told my viewers of the time my daughter had a window shot out in her car while she was driving on North...
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APP—Bodily fluids do not exist . . .
The APP in the title does not stand for an application for your phone or your computer or any other of the flood of digital gadgets on the market. It stands for A Previous Posting. I originally posted...
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Battling e-mails . . .
Battling e-mails . . . For some time I have considered posting this series of e-mails but I have held the posting in abeyance until now. I doubt that many viewers will hang on long enough to finish...
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Janie . . .
Readers of my blog will note that I write and post letters to my relatives who have left this realm for another. These letters are the means I have chosen to document their lives and to secure them in...
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Revisit: A letter to my brother Larry (1919-1983) . . . (via The King of Texas)
Dear Larry, I know this will surprise you because the only other letter you’ve received from me was dated 64 years ago. Yep, I was only 12 years old when I asked you to take pity on an exhausted,...
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Oh, no! Exit fat, French fries, sugar, salt & gravy . . .
On a recent Sunday morning I unrolled my home-delivered plastic-bagged copy of the San Antonio Express-News, the only daily newspaper in the seventh largest city in America, with a potential audience...
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