John Moore is a 1980 graduate of Ashdown High School who lived in Texarkana and worked at KTFS Radio during the 1980s. His books, Write of Passage: A Southerner's View of Then and Now - Volume I and II, are available on Amazon. You can email him through his website at TheCountryWriter.com.
It's a Sign! But does it matter?
Do signs really change anyone's mind?
We must think that they do. We buy and put out a lot of them.
Sep. 20 2020 @ 6:41pm
Women once ultra-sensitive about hair doing techniques
The curling iron changed things. From the male perspective, not necessarily in a good way.
Sep. 13 2020 @ 8:42pm
True grits is what we make of it
Folks who aren't from the South invariably aren't familiar with grits. When they come for a visit, they often twist their eyebrows into a John Belushi-type look after they spot them on their breakfast plate.
Sep. 6 2020 @ 8:02pm
Nuts So Long Ago
My father couldn't pass a roasted peanut stand without stopping to buy a bag. He loved them.
Aug. 30 2020 @ 9:01pm
His name is Charlie and we've made him a promise
Charlie is 7. Part Basset and part Beagle, he was placed in an animal shelter not once, but twice. That means he went through three different homes.
Aug. 23 2020 @ 8:24pm
OPINION: Remembering 1980 while preparing for a reunion
It seemed at the time that my senior year in high school was busy — and tumultuous.
Jul. 26 2020 @ 8:42pm
Leaving the garden gate ajar
The great thing about growing a lot of your own food is the ability to walk out the back door and pick it.
Jul. 12 2020 @ 8:32pm
Move to metric 50 years ago didn't measure up
I remember it as clearly as yesterday. There it was in my Weekly Reader: "By the year 2000, the United States and the rest of the world will be using the metric system."
Jul. 5 2020 @ 8:46pm
Lawn Letdown: Water we do now?
When I was a kid, things didn't break as often as they do now. If you bought something at Sears Lawn and Garden, you needed to run over it with an 18-wheeler to render it nonfunctional.
Jun. 21 2020 @ 9:29pm
A good ribbing and I'm not fibbing
In the South, the only thing you can say that's considered bigger fightin' words than, "Why didn't you put beans in your chili?" is to speak ill of dry rub on ribs.
Jun. 14 2020 @ 7:31pm
Catch the waves and toss out a few, too
The yards had been mostly vacant on the street around the corner from our house, save for the tricycles, small bikes and other toddler transportation.
May. 31 2020 @ 7:56pm
Where is Paul Harvey when you need him?
Rush Limbaugh single-handedly revived AM radio. In 1988, his syndicated talk show brought people back to a place they had left for the FM dial.
May. 24 2020 @ 7:15pm
Can cooking save me from my cravings?
When you're stuck in your house for weeks on end, there's an undeniable temptation to eat more. It creeps up on you at first, but soon the cravings hit you like a high school girlfriend who caught you looking at a cheerleader.
May. 3 2020 @ 8:44pm
VIDEO | A worse thing than social distancing? Wallpapering
There are two true tests for how solid your marriage is -- COVID-19 and hanging wallpaper together.
Apr. 26 2020 @ 11:18pm
Why does it take so many remote controls?
In the world of consolidated technologies, why does controlling TV stuff remotely lag behind?
Apr. 19 2020 @ 8:45pm
Hair Apparent
Some people just outlive their hairstyle.
Jan. 21 2020 @ 9:45pm
Goodnight John-Boy
In 2013, TV Guide ranked this show number 34 on the list of the top 60 TV shows of all time. Not bad for a program that was originally placed opposite The Flip Wilson Show and The Mod Squad on Thursday nights -- two highly-rated shows of the early '70s.
Jan. 14 2020 @ 1:55pm
The return of chocolate gravy
(phone ringing)
Me: "Hello."
Mom: "Did you know that your cousin Tina works at a restaurant that serves chocolate gravy?"
Me: "What? Where?"
Jan. 7 2020 @ 8:11pm
The man across the fence and what he meant
I was never any good at football. I played because my dad had been a football star in high school. All-District and All-State, he was even offered a college scholarship.
Jan. 5 2020 @ 9:37pm
Getting the band back together
There's still a debate over whether we spelled it "TRAX" or "TRAXX." What's not in doubt is that it was a high school rock band that five friends from the Texarkana area played in during the late 1970s.
Jul. 7 2019 @ 10:54pm