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Peggy Keener: The sticky pact between PB and me
So, here’s the deal. I love peanut butter. I mean seriously, I really, really do! For starters, it’s ...
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Peggy Keener: Queen of the nail biters
It’s midnight. You know you should be asleep … but nothing can stop you from turning the page. ...
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Peggy Keener: The frigid history of ice
Author’s note: I regret telling you that the 3rd Part of “Out of Darkness, A Light,” mysteriously vanished ...
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Keener: From Out of Darkness, A Light
Louis loved watching his father, a saddle maker in their small French village. To him, his father’s assortment ...
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Peggy Keener: Passage to India
In 1988, when our daughter, Erin, was a student at Oxford University in England, she was given a ...
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Annie Lane: The day our sainted mother crumbled
My mother was ferociously fertile. Her fecundity was so powerful, all it took for her to get pregnant ...
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Peggy Keener: When the arrow flew from cupid’s bow
There I was doing it again, staring for the umpteenth time. My eyes couldn’t stop roving his way ...
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Peggy Keener: Does what bugs me, bug you?
So, here it is. I have some things that really rub me raw, vexing me in the most ...
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Peggy Keener: Hearts, roses … and a sour note
Now that Valentine’s Day is behind us and all that lovey dovey business is over, I thought it ...
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Peggy Keener: Going out on a high note
To be the organist of Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church in the 1950s, one had to be recognizably talented, ...
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Peggy Keener: Memories from the dresser drawer
Some 50 years ago, we were living in Maryland sandwiched between our last home in Bangkok and our ...
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Peggy Keener: Tingle jingle tingle time
I have a story to tell. A true story. A significant emotional event that bears witness to the ...
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Peggy Keener: The secret lives of carols
Christmas carols. We all know them and love them, but do we know the story behind them? Take ...
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Peggy Keener: The rejected hero
Shavarsh Karapetyan was making the final push of a 13-mile run. With a 45-pound bag of sand strapped ...
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Peggy Keener: A girl’s bust friend
In my last column I featured my Warner’s long line girdle. I don’t wear it anymore, preferring now ...