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I like to watch old movies. Pat and I watched the 1978 production of “Grease” this past week. Paramount spent $6 million on this movie and made all their money back on the first weekend it was released. In case you forgot, it was about teenagers living in the ancient American times of the 1950’s and it is a musical. John Travolta plays the “Greaser” and his pretty little girlfriend is Olivia Newton John. The setting is in a California High School whose principal is Eve Arden and whose coach is played by Sid Caesar who hasn’t won a game in 7 years.
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Old timers visiting Allen often ask me “what has happened to downtown Allen?” They are referring of course to our missing stores downtown. They are gone and I don’t think they’ll be back. I wrote an article some years ago and the lead was this: “One by one, the lights are winking out in rural America.” I was referring to the hundreds of little towns in the USA that have mostly vanished.
Read morePeddling my bike on Stonewall streets that sunny morning was rewarding in itself but I was thinking it would be better if I had someone to ride along with me. As was so often the case, I didn’t see any prospects that morning on my way back home but I did see a big flat-bed-truck backed up to the old Garrett house on the corner of Broadway and 8 th street. I feared the worst remembering who had lived there before—an old man who was a complainer and grouch. Then I saw a boy’s bike being set off the truck. It looked to be about the right size.
Read moreThis Sunday is Mother’s Day. A very special time for many of us who have such special memories of our very special mothers. When I was a child, my mom was the person I ran to when I was in pain or hurting. Or when I was worried about God and other celestial matters, you can be sure I ran to her for advice. She was my first advisor after I learned I needed to give my life to Jesus. She never gave me any bad advice in these matters.
Read moreIt’s just about May and this heralds’ observations of many important days. Graduations take place and so does Mother’s Day and Memorial Day. I don’t know where we will hold the Memorial Day ceremonies this year, in the cemetery or at the school’s auditorium, but the date is May 30. Stay tuned. But speaking of Memorial Day I think of some of the heroes of my own heart. One of them is from Texas but he was sort of local to me.
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