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Full Circle: Numbers, the tally of my life

I will soon experience my 77th spring. Seventy-seven times will I again meet the balmy weather uncloaked, unmittened, ...

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Full Circle: Spam, the real king of Siam

Yul Brynner step aside. You lost your reign years ago. Indeed, on the day my father stepped onto ...

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Full Circle: Metal mouth shunned by Hollywood

“Help! A piece of Gramma just broke off!” You stood there horrified. It was the first time you ...

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Full Circle: The joy of good sox

That headline is not a typo. I do mean sox. The things on your feet! No matter what ...

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Full Circle: Memories of Nemitz’s

I couldn’t count the times we four kids asked our father, “Could I please have a dime to ...

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Full Circle: Minnesota’s democracy of snow

Snow! Beautiful snow! We berate it, we curse it, we lament it, but we in Minnesota also know ...

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Full Circle: Low-minded resolutions

Down with New Year’s resolutions. They are nothing more than pompous, hackneyed reproaches that like nothing better than ...

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Full Circle: ‘Christmas’ stirs many emotions

“Christmas” is possibly the most loaded word in our English language. No other term stirs up so many ...

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Full Circle: Leftover laments

Oh, m’gosh! Just looked in my refridge. Talk about unrest! With Christmas coming, every shelf is still sagging ...

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Full Circle: A holiday of family, friends and food

Turkey Day. Busily bustling about, we laid the table with Mom’s freshly polished sterling and her best bone ...

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Full Circle: Turkey tail tales

“Gobble gobble gobble!” Now there’s a familiar phrase. But, do any of you really know what it means? ...

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Full Circle: Sometimes a romance novel trumps the wisdom of ‘The New Book of Etiquette’

Last weekend as I riffled through a box of old yellowed classics at the Austin Library used book ...

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Full Circle: Early refrigerators came with plenty of work

Your refrigerator! What a reliable, even friendly helpmate it is. But this was not always so. Do you ...

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Full Circle: The sole of Main St. – Hastings holds a century-old Austin legacy

In the past 106 years, neither Austin churches, nor traveling ministries nor tent revivals have saved more soles ...

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Full Circle: ‘The church is on fire!’

The shrill clangor of a persistent telephone startled me from my sleep. I awakened to pitch darkness, a ...

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