I have to admit it. Every year I tear up when I hear the sweet strains of Auld Lang Syne. As we greet the New Year with great anticipation, we cannot help but look back and remember those that are no longer with us. I miss my mother and father the most. They enjoyed a good party, and New Year's E
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12/31/2008
Well, well, well. Another new year is just around the corner. Having been through 55 of these momentous events, I can say with some degree of certainty, that this one will be greeted with little fanfare or celebration. After all, there is not a lot of reason to jump up and down with glee. The new
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12/30/2008
A few years ago, a teacher named Ken Smith was spending his summer working in the gift shop at Yellowstone National Park. One of the items they sold there were the circus animal cookies that are so popular with children. Ken thought that it was silly to sell cookies depicting giraffes, lions and
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12/29/2008
I have spent the last two days bringing my Dell Inspiron back to life after a catastrophic crash. It has been an uphill battle. I tried a lot of fixes that failed miserably, leaving me the only option left ... to start all over again from scratch. It took nearly a full day just to get back on the
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12/29/2008
Well, I have seen it happen to others, but this is a first for me. My trusty Dell Inspiron had an "episode" as I was trying to get my work done for tomorrow. Now that I finally have some business, I have to deal with tech issues. Initial recovery efforts failed. So I have been able to get back so
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12/27/2008
Last Friday night my wife and I were walking through downtown Newnan Georgia. It was an unusually mild evening for Newnan, and I was taking photographs as usual. A street had been cordoned off for musicians and there were some booths and carriage rides. Several organizations were doing some fundr
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12/24/2008
OK, the big day is finally upon us. For over a month now it's been parties, activities and general revelry but now the grim reality is upon us. Christmas is here and we suddenly realize that we have forgotten, neglected or just plain ran out of time to do all of the things that we really wanted t
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12/24/2008
In 1944, my father was a young airman about to experience his first Christmas away from home! The entire world was engulfed in a horrific war of epic proportions, and it was very man's duty and privilege to serve his country in battle. But at eighteen years of age, it's hard to reconcile the prec
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12/23/2008
I have to admit that I love Christmas. I love everything about it, especially all of the activities surrounding the preparation for the blessed event. I am also a firm believer in tradition, and I think that these customs are burned into our brain as children and do not change all that much over
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12/20/2008
I guess I was the only person in the country that did not know that the moon would simultaneously be full and at perigee (Nearest point of orbit) on December 12. So there I was, driving down the main drag, Bullsboro Drive when the ascending moon suddenly appeared before me on the highway. I was t
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12/20/2008