Appalachian Mountain Dreams

This just hit the wires… Syndicated political columnist Molly Ivins died of breast cancer Wednesday evening at her home in Austin. She was 62 years old, and had much, much

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My morning email brought me this from the Blue  Mountain Center of Meditation… January 30And then there crept a little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh

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I drug myself out of bed early yesterday and drove into downtown Houston to the U of H Downtown for a seminar on Digital Travel Photography presented by National Geographic

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Leon Hale has a story from his childhood that tells it like it was in rural Texas. It starts like this… When the family gets together we sometimes retell the

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I see from my email forecast that we can expect a second day of sunshine before we go back to trying to live up to Seattle’s weather rep. It has

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I managed to sit through the President’s address last evening without throwing anything at the television harder than a few epitaphs, the strongest of which was probably “You damn liar”. One of

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 Ok folks, this starts out strange but stay for the full thing. It’s worth the time… I don’t know about you, but I’m with George W on this one: It’s

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Call me a cynic, but any plan from this president to address the healthcare/insurance problem in the country is pretty much a non-starter for me. I have spent most of my adult

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