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George's Front Porch: "Eye Witness to History" -- "It just happens"
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Thursday, November 21, 2013. Eye Witness to History" - "It just happens". I stayed home from school that day, convincing my mother that I was sick. My only memory of the day is walking across the street with my mother to Mrs. Dugas' house; and when we walked in her front door (nobody knocked; you just walked in), she told my mother, " Sha. They shot him.". And journalist Hugh Aynesworth. And to hear Aynesworth's follow-up commentary. Ed out of his death.
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George's Front Porch: September 2013
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Tuesday, September 17, 2013. He became a millionaire:" Make it go away! My daughter and I went out for Chinese food tonight, and a few seconds after this photo was taken, in the no-time-for-segues, relentless conversational pace of teenage girls, she blurted, "Oh, my gosh. My history teacher. Today. He starts singing that song. And he asked, 'What happened to Jed? And I said, 'He became a millionaire.' And he asked, 'How did you know that? What makes t...
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George's Front Porch: December 2013
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Thursday, December 5, 2013. OTD: It's just not funny anymore. Old-timer's Disease" just isn't funny anymore. Seemed kind of cute when one of us (yep, Baby Boomers. Those "Missing Elderly" signs that TxDOT posts on the freeway . best joke I'd told in a long time was that I regularly check to see if those signs are describing me and my vehicle. Missing Memo: Walking the Alzheimer's Abyss. Alzheimer's Association - Greater Dallas Chapter. 1 Did anybody (h...
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George's Front Porch: August 2008
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Friday, August 29, 2008. Dorothy . . . Peter Pan . . . The More Things Change . . . At that time, Daughter #2 talked about being in the sixth-grade band; and Daughter #1 seemed to accept that her sister was in sixth grade and even 'whoo-hooed' her role as the big dog on the intermediate school campus. Then Daughter #1 realized that her sister will 'grown up' and fighting in the jungles of the seventh grade next year. When my wife mentioned that the lif...
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George's Front Porch: I got your diva right here: Four tips for dealing with stress
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Friday, November 15, 2013. I got your diva right here: Four tips for dealing with stress. My boss called me a. This afternoon. If I'm going to be a diva, today, I'd like to be this diva (and I'm not ever sure who she is). In reality, I felt a lot like the guy from. Who loses it and goes on a. I'm mad as hell". Okay, I felt a little like Joe Pesci. In one of those Snickers commercials, too. Named "public relations" as #7 on its list of the. PRSA offers ...
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George's Front Porch: This week in sports: PR pros are 2-0.
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Tuesday, October 29, 2013. This week in sports: PR pros are 2-0. I'm not much of a sports guy, but two stories jumped out at me this week, both related to smart PR guys and media placement. The first is from Sunday's Cowboys-Lions game (Cowboys lost 30-31). Wide receiver Dez Bryant. What's impressive are his teammates' responses to media inquiries following the game. In a Fort Worth Star-Telegram article. Dez invokes Pop Warner. More importantly, his o...
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George's Front Porch: July 2008
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Friday, July 18, 2008. The Roller Coaster Wait: mad as hell and the big to-do. I hate haircuts. Fortunately, I wasn’t waiting for my own haircut but was sitting in the waiting area of Great Clips reading the July issue of Texas Monthly while my wife and the stylist discussed baseball, cars or whatever women talk about when they get their hair cut. And the read proved to be quite a roller coaster ride. Then I turn the page. Had to pay another $50 for th...
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George's Front Porch: Social Media: Keeping Friends Close (but enemies closer)
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Friday, November 29, 2013. Social Media: Keeping Friends Close (but enemies closer). That's #awkward in Farsi (or at least it's supposed to be), and that's what might be trending this week in Iran, where earlier this week, Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif. Not awkward enough, then maybe a Facebook friend request from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Yep, everybody who's anybody in Iran is racking up his Klout. And changed the political face of the region.
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George's Front Porch: August 2013
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Thursday, August 29, 2013. In a Word: Black and White. I miss black and white. I just re-read. Johnny Got His Gun. For the first time since high school, and it brought me back to those crystal-clear teenage years when decisions between right and wrong, left or right were as simple as … well, black and white. All the answers were right there on television, most of the time literally in black and white. My dad was. And he and his. Saddest reality is of t...
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George's Front Porch: September 2008
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Reactions and Observations from a Texas Front Porch. Thursday, September 25, 2008. Walden: foreshadowing the Front Porch. John Denver was singing 'Rocky Mountain High,' the campus Ecology Club was stacking newspapers, and our English teachers had us reading Thoreau's Walden. We were going to live the simple life, peace would dominate the world (peace dominate? And the planet would be saved. And the boys among us were ecstatic that the draft was over. Not sure exactly what he said, but I like the justific...