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Just exercised my privilege to vote this morning!

Posted by on Oct 27, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Hope you do the same soon if you haven’t already.  Tomorrow is the deadline for pre-voting in Tennessee and the election is next Tuesday. But answer me this question:  I know the workers at the polls are probably paid very little, in some cases are volunteers and they work fairly long hours.  But is it so hard to be ‘friendly’ to us as we...

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Grandchild #5 has arrived!

Posted by on Oct 25, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

When I was a kid … I remember my Mom and Dad singing a song written in 1922: “Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning….” I’ve been singing that all morning and changing the ‘in’ to ‘with’ because we now have our own Carolina! Carolina Pearl Howard – born 8:42PM last night to Courtney and Grant.  This little one...

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Getting up EARLY has it’s advantages!

Posted by on Oct 21, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

When I tell people I arise at around 4:15AM 5 to 6 days each week to workout, I’m either thought of as crazy or some wonder ‘how do you do it’.  There are advantages! The physical fitness aspect of working out each day will be a blog entry for another day.  But this morning – October 21, 2010 at 4:45AM – I witnessed one of the big...

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