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Showing posts with label Talent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Talent. Show all posts
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Yes, Virginia, Once Upon A Time, Real Men Played Football

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Via Traces of Texas, on Facebook: "Dandy" Don Meredith, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, talks to reporters in the lo...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Author Richard Adams Has Passed Away, at a Good Age

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While everyone is talking about George Michael and Carrie Fisher, who both died too young, and ZsaZsa Gabor, who nearly made it to 100,...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

A Factoid About Donald Trump and Infrastructure Building Projects

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From an article about Donald Trump in the Oct 4, 1989 Issue of People Magazine: " When the city of New York floundered for six years ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Demonstrating Linoleum Block Cutting And Printing

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I was honored to be among those demonstrating how to make art at the "Stars of Texas" annual art show in Brownwood Texas. This...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

An Evening Of Art And Music: Salon des Refuses

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It is that time again! This is the reception for the opening of Salon des Refuses at the Brownwood Art Association Art Center in Brownw...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Hand Finishing Fine Silver Jewelry: Pre-Firing Phase

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In my Etsy store (link over to the left), I sell handmade jewelry.  This video shows a portion of the finishing process that happens on ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

UPDATED: An American Son, An American Sign: Standing Up Against Negotiating With Terrorists

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" Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little ."                                   ...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

The Other Dame Julian: The Mother of Fly Fishing was a 15th Century English Nun

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I first read about Dame Juliana Berners a few weeks ago, and I am still enthralled with this quaint little fact from " A Brief History ...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Letting History Talk For Fun: Reenactments and Historical Demonstration

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 In the way these things usually happen, I accidentally started myself down the road into a whole new hobby a few months ago when I did a...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Where Unchosen Postage Stamp Designs Go To Play

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This is the coolest page I have seen today: Sheaff : ephemera : Stamp Design .   These are postage stamp designs that never made it through ...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Letterpress Poster Printing ... And A Little Wood Type Puzzle Solved

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 I've been doing more printing lately. This is the first poster I've ever printed. I am pretty happy with it! It was a give-away ...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

How a Thank You Note Made My Day

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Since the new Texas Cottage Food Law took effect September first, I have been baking bread to sell at our local Farmer's Market. It ...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Author Reviews My Review

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There are some good books out there in the self publishing world today. One way to find some of the better ones is to read the authors'...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Come and See! The Project I Have Been Working On Since January!

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In January, my future with my employer went away. In February, I started working on designing silver jewelry, and now am ready to launc...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Outside The Box and Working: A Full Service Independent Gas Station

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 This is an older, independent filling station. They have a convenience store ("Cheap Smokes, Pop & Snacks"), but that...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Kitchen Sink Band Plays Cigar Box Blues At Common Grounds Coffee House

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Every once in a wonderful while, the local blues band " Kitchen Sink " plays at a Brownwood Texas coffee shop ( Common Gr...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Paula Deen, Rush Limbaugh, Shirley Sherrod: Honest Victims of Infantile Management

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Paula Deen testified truthfully when under oath. She was asked "have you ever [in your whole life] said [that word]?" Unlike the...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Who Can Take Your Money? Hmmmm?

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Very Funny! Christian comic Tim Hawkins does a great impression of the late, great, Sammy Davis Jr in this so-true-it-hurts parody cal...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Victory! A World War American Homefront Collection

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Well I had planned to blog about starting the garden, but Pat's latest antiquing "Take A Trip" got me thinking it has been a ...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Sarah Palin Goes To The Fair: Inspiration From the Original Midwest Bus Tour

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Via Texans for Sarah Palin : America is the most awesome country! Thank you, Sarah Palin, for telling anyone who wants to listen just ...