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Opinion: IS 25 THE NEW 50?

20.12.2024 1

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Gust Column: Do you own enough Christmas music?

17.12.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

‘The Year Without A Santa Claus’ turns 50???

10.12.2024 1

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Gust Column: It’s normal to be thankful for these things, isn’t it?

I would love to revolutionize your Thanksgiving Day speeches, but I must admit that the blessings I feel gratitude for are embarrassingly mundane. I...

28.11.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Ready for chatbot clergy?

‘Give me that old-time religion, give me that old-time religion…” I can still hear classmate Ronald Bright launching into an impromptu...

11.11.2024 2

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Can public figures stop cheapening Veterans Day?

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, as...

05.11.2024 4

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Are you spending enough for Halloween?

According to the National Retail Federation (motto: “Proudly middlemansplaining since 1911”), Americans set a Halloween spending record of $12.2...

29.10.2024 4

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Do you sound unprofessional at work?

My handy-dandy “column topic radar” lit up when I encountered an internet article called “12 Phrases You’re Using That Make You Sound...

17.10.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Ready for some National Newspaper Week revelations?

‘Telling Our Stories.” That’s the 2024 theme of National Newspaper Week (October 6-12). Newspaper employees are being encouraged to share with...

05.10.2024 9

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Opinion: Danny Tyree WHAT'S THE LOWDOWN ON YOUR TOWN'S DOWNTOWN?

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...

28.09.2024 6

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Rockford Files? Little House? 50 Years? Really?

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 at...

21.09.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Does your school system appreciate “Venmo moms”?

For decades, my mother (who was a veterinarian’s assistant during my childhood) gloated about her visit to my third-grade classroom. The dignified...

03.09.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Did you remember your pets in your will?

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 (but...

25.08.2024 7

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Have you hugged an engineer lately?

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 in...

17.08.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Where were you when Nixon resigned?

Sock it to meee?” That awkward query by presidential candidate Richard Milhous Nixon (on the September 16, 1968, episode of “Rowan and Martin’s...

02.08.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Is country music cool again?

The rhythm-and-blues-tinged 1962 Ray Charles album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.” John Travolta’s mechanical-bull-riding...

27.07.2024 9

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Do you talk with your hands?

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...

22.07.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Are you and your blood pressure best buddies?

Although I receive three or more official doctor’s office blood pressure readings annually, I have procrastinated about regularly assessing my blood...

15.07.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: What’s a good age gap for couples?

A recent news development has left some folks scandalized and others envious. (And still others grumbling, “I don’t need no stinking news...

03.07.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Have you visited your 50th state yet?

‘I’ve been everywhere, man/I’ve been everywhere, man…” – as sung by Hank Snow. I was overjoyed to hear that one of my high school...

28.06.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Are you hopelessly confused about telephone etiquette?

‘Don’t you dare call me without texting first!” blared a recent headline in the Wall Street Journal. Yes, forget about Taiwan and other...

14.06.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Should a sense of humor be mandatory for fathers?

Some fathers are entirely too serious. They’re paranoid about their children finding out that they had their own youthful indiscretions and...

08.06.2024 5

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Ready for Pat Sajak's final spin of the wheel?

June 7 will be a bittersweet day in TV history, as the final “Wheel of Fortune” hosted by Pat Sajak airs. Sajak announced his retirement plans a...

03.06.2024 20

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Is it nice to fool Mother Nature?

Tyrades! Yes, I was hunkered down paying rapt attention to the weather report on May 8 when an EF-3 tornado rampaged through a neighboring county....

20.05.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Is 'value' a dirty word?

As I sit here admiring my 88-cent container of mustard, I can’t help feeling self-conscious. I know that restaurants advertise their “value...

10.05.2024 40

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Ready for the bathroom of tomorrow?

Bathroom floor tiles that weigh you, analyze your gait and evaluate your fall risk. Bathroom mirrors that initiate telehealth conferences based on...

19.04.2024 7

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Will you still need me, will you still feed me?

During my career as a late-in-life columnist, I have been blessed with the opportunity to chronicle three birthdays ending in zero. (My so-called...

12.04.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Ever have a work spouse?

You probably have quite a few co-workers with whom you exchange chitchat, banter and superficial observations on current events. (“I fervently...

06.04.2024 20

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: So you acknowledge Jesus as a wise teacher? Really?

It’s probably not the Easter message you expected, but for the sake of argument, let’s set aside miracles, repentance, heaven, hell and claims of...

30.03.2024 20

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Has the Pentagon shattered your faith in UFOs?

Well, THOSE eagerly anticipated revelations certainly crashed and burned. You may recall last summer a former intelligence officer told Congress that...

20.03.2024 6

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: What does spring break mean to you?

You probably crave a break from my patented “sour grapes” routine, but we must face facts: spring break (a.k.a. Easter break, a.k.a. mid-term...

12.03.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Am I overthinking slang?

By Danny Tyree As a writer, I can't deny harboring an appreciation for the richness of slang, metaphors, similes and colloquialisms. And yet...there's...

02.03.2024 30

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Am I overthinking slang?

As a writer, I can’t deny harboring an appreciation for the richness of slang, metaphors, similes and colloquialisms. And yet…there’s something...

02.03.2024 20

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Have you ever taken full responsibility?

‘I accept full responsibility.”’ In your lifetime you’ve doubtless heard umpteen public figures (elected officials, bureaucrats, corporate...

23.02.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Ready for an Apple Vision Pro world?

What an amazing coincidence! Two days after Apple released its much-ballyhooed Vision Pro contraption, Joni Mitchell gave her first Grammy Awards...

12.02.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Using the right Valentine’s Day questions?

While struggling to find a suitable angle for this Valentine’s Day essay, I lucked upon some “Reader’s Digest” clickbait. The article talked...

05.02.2024 9

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Should students be bribed into attending classes?

Are truancy officers about to get help in fighting absenteeism? According to the New York Post, the Ohio legislature is considering a bipartisan pilot...

29.01.2024 40

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Do you suffer from the 'stillgottas'?

Despite my best preventive measures, I have spent decades enduring the “stillgottas.” If you are unfamiliar with the medical terminology, it’s...

22.01.2024 50

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Been at your job too long?

13.01.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Aaaaay! Is 'Happy Days' really turning 50?

Oh, for simpler times with fewer adult responsibilities and fewer high-tech distractions! Then I might manage to finish reading two excellent...

09.01.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Could you pass a citizenship test? Really?

Okay, maybe I’m approaching this from a position of privilege. One of my earliest memories is of tagging along to my mother’s former grammar...

02.01.2024 7

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Will you be busted by a 'noise camera'?

‘Just when you think it’s safe to be a jerk on the roadway…” Motorists in many cities have grown accustomed to the likelihood of having their...

26.12.2023 20

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: What can the nativity teach us?

‘The right place at the right time.” I realize that not everyone recognizes Jesus Christ as the Son of God (or even a real person); but for...

18.12.2023 6

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Will golf be recognizable in 20 years?

A course is a course, of course of course … Or is it? According to those madcap bean-counters at the National Golf Foundation, the number of...

11.12.2023 4

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Would you like to sleep through Christmas?

It was never as high-profile as “Rudolph” or “Frosty,” but it’s worth noting that the animated special “The Bear Who Slept Through...

04.12.2023 7

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

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