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| Obituary alert: Hose are dead! Yay, legs! Hose are dead! Long live legs! Great news in the fashion world, and this time it has trickled down to the real world: That scourge of womanly comfort, pantyhose, are dead. This is not a sad obituary. It's official: the Wall Street Journal has... ( added 147 days 19 hours ago.) |
| Why I Will Miss George Carlin Iconoclast comedian George Carlin died Sunday night from heart failure at 71. That's a shock to me -- he always seemed so youthful:his razor wit, those huge eyes, his long hair, hip demeanor and black garb. I had a few favorite Carlinisms... ( added 150 days ago.) |
| Are Creativity and Mental Health Mutually Exclusive? On a mediabistro.com thread, a writer who has been feeling depressed asked for input from fellow writers recently. Most responding posters recommended a visit with a good internist to make sure hormone and thyroid issues and other possible... ( added 177 days 9 hours ago.) |
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| Using Creative Approach To Help Our Shut-In Elders, Even From a Distance So you're the adult child of a shut-in elder. In honor of those days when you were little and dependent, when they amused you when you were ill and looked for things for you to do on rainy days, it's time to get a bit creative, perhaps. If your... ( added 179 days ago.) |
| Singer/songwriter Steve Weisberg recalls days as lead guitar for John Denver When lead guitarist Steve Weisberg met John Denver in a hardware store in Aspen, he had the restraint not to ask for an audition.
"I knew he had to find me, and I knew he would," he said.
Then one day in 1973, the phone rang.
"This is... ( added 179 days 13 hours ago.) |
| Groundbreaking Actress Gives Biblical Women Their 15 Minutes of Fame Groundbreaking actress and Christian performer Naima Lett is determined to give five biblical women their 15 minutes of fame. Eve, Jezebel, Leah, Tamar and Mary, the mother of Jesus, get a fresh look in Shattered Silhouettes, which weaves together... ( added 179 days 13 hours ago.) |
| National Coalition of Cleaning Services Helps Women Undergoing Cancer Treatment When one of her customers began cancer treatments, Debbie Sardone offered to clean her house for free.
She had no idea what she was starting.
The result years later is Cleaning For A Reason, a Lewisville-based coalition of cleaning services... ( added 179 days 13 hours ago.) |
| Self-editing is like AI steak sauce An editor told me recently he's been inundated by stories that aren't finished. In the freelance world, an unfinished story is a liability to the writer. The more work the editor has to do to it just to get it to useable, the less likely the... ( added 180 days 11 hours ago.) |
| Quick turn on revisions? Expect it When a writer recently complained of having to do a quick turn on revisions for a freelance magazine piece that was written as queried, here was my response: Article due: Feb. 15 Article publishes: May 1 Editor gets back to you and demands... ( added 180 days 11 hours ago.) |
| Travel to write? Or stay in one place? So how do you feel about traveling for freelance stories you're writing?
One writer who loves to travel is delighted that a national magazine is sending him all over. He picks assignments in places he has fun connections to or wants to see.
... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Community Newspapering: Not for the faint of heart So you want to be a writer, and you think a small daily or good-size weekly is your best foot in the door? Be prepared to swing two bats. If this was baseball, practicing swinging two bats would put power in your swing. Same goes for writing.... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| One-Source Newspaper Articles: Scourge or Reality?
I recently got chided for making this statement in a forum for freelance journalists:
To a writer who was doubting her ability to ratchet up her writing to two or three "stories" a day, I said: "Lot of papers that need multiple... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Catch 22 for writers As a writer and editor, there's one peculiar trend I have noticed over many, many years. It's in keeping with the great tradition of capitalism that the higher you rise, the less you do. I'm not indicting this trend. I'm just observing that it may... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| What Makes a Newspaper a 'rag'? So what makes a paper a rag? My suspicion is that it's the same thing that makes a writer a 'hack.' I edit a weekly community newspaper and I work hard to hit some pretty high quality standards. For me, that means no wire copy, for one thing.... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Angel Band: Church's bell choir makes heavenly music Celestial sound from an angel band of bell-ringers is a long-standing tradition at First Presbyterian Church in Ennis, Texas.
Conductor Patsy Jones, who also directs the choir, has led the group since the bells were purchased in 1989.
"Music... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Texas Catholic School Among Top Recyclers In the Nation When it comes to paper recycling, St. John's Catholic School in Ennis, Texas is at the top of the heap.
One sheet of paper at a time and twenty tons of paper each month St. John Catholic School has become the top recycling school in the... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Love in Bloom: Romance and a ring find their Prince Charming moment among the bluebonnets Just how memorable can one patch of wildflowers be?
An incurable romantic, Craig Jacob thought he'd find out. The 27-year-old EMBA student from The Colony turned an outing to the nationally-famous Bluebonnet Trails Festival in Ennis, Texas into... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Former Army nurse visits FDR memorial, recalls last day of President's life at Warm Springs If a picture's worth a thousand words, one taken in Washington, D.C., recently is near priceless.
Maggie Thomas, the only female veteran of the Honor Flight of Ellis County, in the rain, her wheelchair pulled up beside the bronze statue of FDR... ( added 180 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Remembering the Little Rock Nine: Advice to Grads from Civil Rights Pioneer Ernest Green EDITOR'S NOTE: J. Louise Larson recently interviewed Ernest Green, who was the only high school senior in the Little Rock Nine. He and eight other black students were the first to integrate Central High in 1957, following the 1954 U.S. Supreme... ( added 184 days 16 hours ago.) |
| Tell Your Adolescent: The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow On the last day of vacation, we stayed with my sister and her family in Washington state. We'd had a splendid time with family and friends. Invited by their cousin, the strong silent type, for a ride on a go-cart, our oldest son took the... ( added 248 days 8 hours ago.) |
| What's Your Writing Process? Here's How I Turn Research Into Articles Recently, a fellow writer experienced a minor case of writer's block asked some other writers about their non-fiction writing process. This is something I have honed to a fine art (for me!) and I'm happy to share mine with other writers. I have a... ( added 252 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Buzzards Go Home: City Uses Cannons To Scare Kettle of Vultures Away From Water Tower ENNIS - Huddled high atop the Ennis No. 1 water tower Monday evening, a venue of black buzzards roosted. The buzzards, also known as Mexican, silver-tip or white-tip buzzards or vultures, pretty much ignored signs on the fenced enclosure below... ( added 264 days 9 hours ago.) |
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| Death By Perfection: Overwork Can Be Addicting When You Burn the Candle At Both Ends Know how to drive a beaver crazy? An experiment with the beaver species revealed this: after beavers spent painstaking weeks of building a dam and packing it with mud so it was a perfectly waterproof, all scientists had to do to get the beavers... ( added 277 days 4 hours ago.) |
| History for sale? Jack Ruby's log cabin for $15k; Lee Harvey Oswald's killer was investor
There was a little a bit of Dallas history for sale on the Internet.
For $15,000 and the price of hauling it off in 2006, you could buy what might just have been the last remaining piece of a failed investment from the long-closed portfolio... ( added 279 days 11 hours ago.) |
| Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey: World's Smallest Rodeo Star Rides Saddled-Up Border Collie When Whiplash comes galloping into the Resistol Arena on his trusty steed on a Saturday night in Mesquite, the Rodeo Capital of Texas, the crowd cheers wildly.
Could be his colorful cowboy duds and his Justin chaps.
Or the fact that he's a... ( added 279 days 12 hours ago.) |
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