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Posts published in December 2024
The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols fills King’s College Chapel at Cambridge University every year on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. The service is broadcast by the BBC and heard, according to some estimates,…
From the classified ad I guessed the job was delivering packages and paperwork, but in no time at all I found myself with a badge on my chest, a gun on my hip, roaring around…
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In December of 2008 the late Johnny Winter, famous blues musician, appeared in Navarro to perform at the Navarro Store. That appearance was improbable bordering on the impossible. A man who played to thousands was…
When I was a lad of 14, at school in Scotland, a news mogul tycoon called Roy Thompson used five simple words to describe the higher purpose of commercial television. 1955 was the year the…
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I met my friend Clarice when we both attended California State University, Long Beach, in the early 90s. I was working on my Master’s in English Literature with Creative Writing Emphasis, and we were both…
WHOA! Feudin' and fussin' on the Fort Bragg City Council this week. Councilperson Tess Albin-Smith on her colleague Marcia Rafanan: “Marcia is a very nice person, she’s very friendly, but she’s definitely not a leader,…