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Rudy And The Blueberry Birds

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Terry Taylor

My mother is 84 years old, hard of hearing and has three blueberry bushes in her backyard. Each produces a different kind of blueberry. I have no horticultural bent so I am not aware of the species or varieties. I … Continue reading →

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Rudy’s New Thing

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Terry Taylor

RUDY JOURNAL: STARDATE APRIL 2008:  Rudy, our Jack Russell, has begun to expand his menu of tricks. A few months ago, we noticed that he had added a new move to his repertoire of ball chasing. He knows words too.

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Aqua Lung

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Terry Taylor

My father died from complications of pneumonia. My great grandfather died in his forties from it. Pneumonia has always seemed foreign to me, like cancer or the plague. It is something people get just before they die.

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The Difference Between Writers and Storytellers

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Terry Taylor

You have heard this before. Newspapers are dying, if not dead. No one reads books anymore. The Internet is going to images and words are being left in the digidust.  Ironically, the written word’s obit gets rewritten every day. The … Continue reading →

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Wht ru txting?

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I find the texting craze that is so fashionably addressed toward teens to be amusing. I have seen several TV commercials making fun of parents for being clueless on the language of texting. That said; I probably send 40-50 text … Continue reading →

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“I’ll beat you senseless with the little metal car!”

Posted on December 26, 2007 by Terry Taylor

People can hear the yelling six houses down. It’s violent and ugly and causes pain and suffering. I grew up in the middle of the Braveheart-like struggle. Oh the horror, the guilt, the fake money.

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Damn is Now My Middle Name

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I received a letter last week from a company billing itself as the “Cleanest Company In America.” The copy explained how the company’s expert maids wanted to clean my house like “no one has ever cleaned it.”

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Suck-Egg Dog

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Terry Taylor

When I was young, my grandparents had a dog that took up on the farm – a “suck-egg dog,” as my grandpaw called him. He said a suck-egg dog was a no-account bum of a beast who had to be … Continue reading →

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Dallas

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I didn’t shoot J.R., but I was there – wearing a dead man’s suit. It was hot enough to deep fry a 12-pound turkey under my arm when I got out of the limo in front of J.R. Ewing and … Continue reading →

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Hick Flick

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Terry Taylor

My daughter made me watch “The Notebook.” My wife made me watch “Pretty Woman.” They both made me watch “Sweet Home Alabama” and “How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.” I am pretty sure if Josh Lucas or Matthew … Continue reading →

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