For contemporary fiction, I rely on my Kilgore public library card and the digital collection offered by Northeast Texas Library System. But, with space at a premium and weight a…
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An older gentlemen who live near here, takes his wife “to town” for cancer treatment on Wednesdays and then drives her home. By they time they get back, she’s tired…
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It’s sweatshirt season in northern PA… at the very least, a windbreaker. The birch leaves are tinged with yellow and many maple leaves are red at the margin. I feel…
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… there is a season. A show-off maple hints that a new season is just ahead.
Continue readingSo long, it’s been good to know you
Friendly folks drift in and out of my campground every week. Some I chat with, some I sit with, some I only wave to and later find myself regretting the…
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Lance and Cathy Mangus first started hanging out together when they were sophomores in high school. Lance is 78 — I didn’t ask Cathy, but I’d guess she’s about the…
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After 3 months of being limited digital communication with those that matter, I had friends and family here thrice in July. Great friends Clark Langley and, two days later, Sharon…
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… a little rain must fall Life in the prettiest campground on the Allegheny Plateau is generally peaches and cream. Occasionally, though, it’s liver and onions. Or pineapple on pizza….
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Taken last evening, July 15, just before a rain shower.
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Rain. Clouds. Really? Life has to be about more than staying dry.
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