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My Facebook “Memories” remind me that my son Gideon has always been ahead of his time. Fourteen years ago, I was reading a book of world history...
My wife recalls the night of December 31, 1999, as a time of anxiety and trepidation. (Of course she views every night as a time of anxiety and...
by Danny Tyree on December 18, 2024 Tyrades! by Danny Tyree My Facebook "Memories" remind me that my son Gideon has always been ahead of his time....
A large part of my collection was destroyed earlier this year, but I still have visions of the world’s largest stockpile of Christmas music dancing...
As a Baby Boomer, I looked on with bemusement; but December 10, 1974 was a cultural milestone for the oldest members of Generation X. That’s when...
I would love to revolutionize your Thanksgiving Day speeches, but I must admit that the blessings I feel gratitude for are embarrassingly mundane....
‘Give me that old-time religion, give me that old-time religion…” I can still hear classmate Ronald Bright launching into an impromptu...
If you designed a banner declaring, “The world is full of crazies” and ran it up the flagpole, assuredly, I would salute it. On the other hand,...
According to the National Retail Federation (motto: “Proudly middlemansplaining since 1911”), Americans set a Halloween spending record of...
My handy-dandy “column topic radar” lit up when I encountered an internet article called “12 Phrases You’re Using That Make You Sound...
‘Telling Our Stories.” That’s the 2024 theme of National Newspaper Week (October 6-12). Newspaper employees are being encouraged to share with...
by Danny Tyree on September 25, 2024 Tyrades! by Danny Tyree My parents used to talk about the county's farmers streaming into town on Saturday and...
Only a handful of the network TV series debuting 50 years ago this autumn managed to survive two or more seasons. But how many would have existed...
For decades, my mother (who was a veterinarian’s assistant during my childhood) gloated about her visit to my third-grade classroom. The dignified...
My bachelor Uncle Vernon refused to make out a last will and testament. Twenty-one years ago, he passed away unexpectedly. That left his beloved...
I’m sure the summer break will fly by faster than the drone my son Gideon has been maneuvering. Gideon recently received his bachelor’s degree...
Sock it to meee?” That awkward query by presidential candidate Richard Milhous Nixon (on the September 16, 1968, episode of “Rowan and Martin’s...
The rhythm-and-blues-tinged 1962 Ray Charles album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.” John Travolta’s mechanical-bull-riding...
Somewhere over the years, karma gave me the finger. It all started with an incident in Mrs. Jones’s high school English class. Classmate Tracy...
Although I receive three or more official doctor’s office blood pressure readings annually, I have procrastinated about regularly assessing my...