GUEST COLUMN | The walking dad
It's obvious that I have to wait to die until after everyone else in my home goes. Otherwise, every light in the house will be left on for all of eternity.
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Column: A fantasy football victory for my father and I
The NFL regular season is coming to a close this weekend and with it, the pastime of millions known as fantasy football.
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GUEST COLUMN | A small town
You learn things when you grow up in a small town. Things you don't learn if you grow up anywhere else. Things that are special.
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GUEST COLUMN | Getting the scoop
It didn't snow much in Ashdown, Arkansas, in the 1960s. It doesn't snow there much now. But when it did, and when it does, kids there know exactly what to do.
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GUEST COLUMN | Clause for alarm
As a young kid, I thought that every family did exactly the same things ours did. That included what and how we did Christmas.
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GUEST COLUMN | Over the river
When you first learn to drive, there are a few things that are, shall we say, intimidating.
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GUEST COLUMN | The lunchroom ladies
It's time the lunchroom ladies got their due.
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GUEST COLUMN | Picturing grace
When I was a child, there was a painting that hung on my grandmother's kitchen wall. It portrayed a man who was praying over a meal of bread and what appeared …
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GUEST COLUMN | A thousand words
The late comedian Norm McDonald once joked about how just a century and a half ago, our great grandfather was lucky if he had one photo of himself.
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TEST DRIVE | 2024 Toyota Tundra the perfect pickup for the country-club set
For proof that Toyota knows its customers, look no further than the 2024 Tundra.
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Subscriber ExclusiveColumn: Can Liberty-Eylau find long-lost identity with coaching search underway?
Liberty-Eylau went into the 2006 Class 3A, Division I state championship against Robinson as the underdogs.
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GUEST COLUMN | Home sweet home
The ownership we feel for places we have lived seems absolute. Any house we've called home was ours. No one else's. Even if several others lived in it before o…
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TEST DRIVE | 2024 Kona urban car grows up, and out
Longer and wider than the model it replaces, the all-new 2024 Hyundai Kona is a roomier and more comfortable urban runabout than the model it replaces.
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Review: The GMC Sierra 1500 AT4X is a truck that makes you want to spend money
Some trucks merely serve as modes of transportation, and then there's the 2023 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4X -- a revelation that beckons you to experience a new dimens…
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GUEST COLUMN | Counter measures
If you look at what's missing from this great land, it's, a barstool on which to sit, good home cookin', and a counter on which to eat it.
