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He had a dream
Remember way, way back when you, with your childish voice, revealed to your family your dreams? Dreams like ...
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Full Circle: What did we do before thorny shrubs?
Has this ever happened to you? You are watching a movie set back in the middle ages where ...
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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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Fools rush in … and back out
As 2019 wheezes its last breaths, let’s take a moment to dwell upon all that has made this ...
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Full Circle: Santa’s main squeeze
No matter how old I get, there persists in the very core of me a shimmering glitter that ...
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Full Circle: And you thought your puberty was rough
I’ll bet you a pretty penny that in the long history of the Austin Daily Herald, it has ...
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Peggy Keener: Know your turkey parts
For 81 consecutive Thanksgivings my sentiments regarding the turkey neck have not changed. I still find it alien ...
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Lip smackin’ glam: The power of lipstick
Elizabeth Taylor once advised a depressed friend, “Pour a stiff drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself ...
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Peggy Keener: Useful uses for used books
Once again the folks of Austin have given the Friends of the Library their books for our Fall ...
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Peggy Keener: Nectar of the gods
I have been moonstruck over one particular beverage ever since I was old enough to have taste buds. ...
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Peggy Keener: When the great creator went wild
What an imagination the Almighty had when he/she conjured up the idea for the giraffe’s neck, the elephant’s ...
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Hmmmmmm, I didn’t know that
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was the tallest of all the American presidents? He liked being six ...
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Parking lot reverie
Stand in the First Street parking lot of Wells Fargo Bank and you’ll find it a pretty barren ...
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Awesome Austin throws a party
Ponder this. What if downtown Austin were to have a sudden mushrooming of 9,000 people? If all those ...
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Bet you didn’t know
Bet you didn’t know that the crescent shaped, whitish area at the base of your fingernails is called ...
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