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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 1 year 136 days 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 1 year 138 days ago.)

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 1 year 167 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 1 year 168 days 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 1 year 168 days 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 1 year 168 days 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 1 year 169 days 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 1 year 169 days 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 1 year 169 days 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 1 year 169 days 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 1 year 169 days 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 1 year 169 days 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 1 year 169 days 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 1 year 173 days 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 1 year 253 days ago.)

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 1 year 265 days 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 1 year 268 days 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 1 year 268 days ago.)

That 70s Building: For a Modern Dilemma, an Intriguing Architectural Solution While architect Wayne Schlock, AIA loves Pasadena, Calif.'s unique and historic Arts & Crafts-era niche, he has an affinity for the modern-era buildings that sprung up there in the past 50 years. Undeterred by dated details that might leave... ( added 1 year 268 days ago.)

The world's oldest Big Sister: At 99, Iva Broadus mentors an elementary student nine decades her junior How old is too old to do some good? Well, there's a nine-decade gap between Iva Broadus and DeAngela Williams. Other than making Ms. Broadus who just turned 99 the oldest Big Sister in the nation, according to the organization's records, that... ( added 1 year 268 days ago.)

Scott Turow, lawyer and author of Presumed Innocent, talks with J. Louise Larson about his writing process Scott Turow's legal thrillers have been translated into more than 25 languages and sold 25 million copies worldwide. His first novel, Presumed Innocent, was made into a film starring Harrison Ford. Still a practicing lawyer (Turow is a partner... ( added 1 year 270 days ago.)

A tool in the freelancer's toolbelt: Advertorial's NOT a four-letter word Some people are confused by the word "advertorial." Those who aren't confused may be irritated! But for ad departments at daily newspapers, advertorial can be the best thing since sliced bread that can help keep revenues on an even keel in iffy... ( added 1 year 271 days ago.)

Grandma Laura: The Grandmother Standard and what love looks like when it's busy So I was laying in bed thinking about how cold my feet were -- I'd been working in the draft, oblivious to my chilling tootsies -- and thinking I should really find my pink fuzzy slippers my kids got me for Christmas three years ago. They're... ( added 1 year 274 days ago.)

Billionaire Mark Cuban: The BlogMaverick who knows when to hold 'em When Forbes ranked Dallas Mavericks owner and so-called billionaire bad boy Mark Cuban as the 428th richest person in the world in 2006, his net worth was valued at $1.8 billion. He has a portfolio of dizzying diversity and a knack for being in... ( added 1 year 274 days ago.)

New Harlequin Romance Has Me Written All Over It -- Literally Look What the Postman Brought In Recently, I got the book I'd been waiting for in the mail from Amazon.com. It represents perhaps the oddest thing I've ever written: the back cover blurb for a Harlequin Intrigue romance. I'd practically forgotten... ( added 1 year 277 days ago.)