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efetters-walp
Dec 20, 20174 min read
Running, Kubler-Ross and writing
As I huffed and puffed toward the 2-mile mark during a race on a chilly but sunny Saturday a week or so ago, I contemplated the five...
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efetters-walp
Sep 11, 20172 min read
Sixteen years later
I read today that a quarter of Texans were born after 9/11. Many college students can’t remember that day because they were too young. My...
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efetters-walp
Dec 10, 20163 min read
The value of real news
During the height of the primary election season, around the start of April this year, I’d had enough. Four months after completing my...
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efetters-walp
Dec 9, 20163 min read
The romance of radio towers
During the post-Thanksgiving weekend, I found time to turn on my paperback book-sized portable radio, plug in my earbuds and start...
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efetters-walp
Dec 8, 20162 min read
Songs, lyrics and word play
I've figured out my 20 favorite songs of this past year, which I'll start posting in the coming days on my social media outlets. It's a...
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efetters-walp
Dec 3, 20162 min read
Raging against musical doldrums
I love music, and I hate classic rock. OK, that’s not the entire story. I’ll never stop listening to Bowie songs from his peak 1970s...
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efetters-walp
Nov 19, 20161 min read
Two hundred words
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Roosevelt, the second president carrying that name, said as his nation struggled, full...
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