Category: 1972 to 1987
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A POIGNANT MEMORY
Sometime shortly after Lyndon Johnson died, a close friend and I took our children to Johnson City. In those days, tour buses took visitors to the cemetery, the schoolhouse, and then went on to the ranch. At the show barns and arena, we disembarked the bus, and the guide took everyone in to talk about…
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LOST CAR
I can look back now and laugh. The incident was not funny when it happened. In the seventies, state in-service was mandatory for homemaking teachers. The Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas was our in-service headquarters that particular summer. The Georgetown teachers traveled in two cars, one of which was mine. We arrived in Dallas, entered…
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Farm Dog
I came across some notes today about Butch, the unattractive little dog who is the hero of my children’s book, “Butch the One of a Kind Dog.” I had additional stories about him on a blog of the same name. When I started the loose strings from the past blog, I moved the stories to…
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BREAKER, BREAKER
Long before we had cell phones, we had CB (Citizens Band) radios. Our family had one in every vehicle. The units were small and fit under the dash of the car or pickup. The boys did some farming when they were in high school, and they had one in the cab of the combine. The…
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The Day The Dogs Were Shot
(Note: I wrote this in 1972 in Georgetown, Texas. It is also on this website under “Butch The One Of A Kind Dog.” It was published on another blog site, which I no longer have, in 1914.) I can’t sleep for trying to think of answers to the questions that came today and that…
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SMALL TOWN CAFE
This was an observation of a small café written in 1984. The café is still there today. The café is on the main highway that goes through the small town sitting in a valley surrounded by Texas hills. There are few parking spaces at the curb along the street. All are filled with local cars. …
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US AND THEM
I leaned against the door frame that separated the two rooms. I looked to the left and then to the right. On my left was a commercial kitchen complete with a deep fryer and convection oven. To my right was a classroom. This was to be my domain for the school year. I was in another…
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EGG “BABIES”
The child development classroom was abuzz with activity. There were murmurs of pleasure and giggles of excitement. The egg babies had arrived! Some students even went so far as to say, “Congratulations” to fellow classmates. Or, they might ask, “Is it a boy or a girl.” The students had one class period to decorate and…
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KATHARINE HEPBURN, IN PERSON
One of my favorite actresses of all time was Katharine Hepburn I admired her on the screen but never imagined seeing her in a live performance. Ken’s job required extensive travel during the seventies. He was returning from a week in Dallas and listening to the radio when he heard an announcement that Katharine Hepburn…
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SOMEWHAT WISER
As I gained experience working with students, I became more adept at anticipating their actions. The other clubs which I sponsored after leaving Fort Worth were Future Homemakers of America * clubs. In the sixties, I taught at Lincoln Junior High in Abilene, Texas. At that time, the 9th grade was in junior high. I…