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The day I was touched by an angel
The setting was a large meeting room filled with row upon row of metal folding chairs. There was ...
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Peggy Keener: Millions and billions of minions
Recently, I read a book about Henry VIII where it talked about his minions. It got me thinking ...
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Peggy Keener: Oh, no! Not January again!
It’s here. Another January. Specifically, the beginning-of-the-new-year-kind-of-January. The weight of this consternation causes me to stoop low under ...
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Peggy Keener: A very, very white Christmas
We have all known numerous past Christmases, but surprisingly few of them remain indelibly in our minds. There’s ...
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Peggy Keener: Turkey vulture tutorial 101
Since my Thanksgiving column, I have not been able to get turkey vultures off my mind. They’re not ...
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Peggy Keener: Your dentist’s most lucrative holiday
What can I say about Halloween? Well, for sure it is a caries delight, but then who cares? ...
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Peggy Keener: Guess who laughed last
George Bush’s return to Midland, Texas, after a 30-year absence, was a disappointment. The old town just wasn’t ...
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Peggy Keener: George W. Bush enters the game
By 1959, George H. W. Bush’s Zapata Oil Company was booming. With its success, the Bush family (who ...
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George W. Bush: Little Lost Boy
“Why are you sad for him? Why aren’t you happy for me?” These are the words a distressed ...
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Peggy Keener: Marriage saved by doughnuts
I married Glen 63.5 years ago. The setting for our wedding was a December fairyland of deep fresh ...
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Peggy Keener: Trial by tumbleweed
I was 10 years old … and in love. Yes, I had given my heart and soul completely ...
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Peggy Keener: Attitude smatitude
Tell me I’m wrong, but didn’t the word “attitude” used to have a different meaning? I remember my ...
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Peggy Keener: Numbers, the tally of my life
On the occasion of my 83rd birthday, I am updating a column I wrote five years ago. It’s ...
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Peggy Keener: A proboscis perspective
We all have them—those fleshy twin-channeled things that stick out on our faces and arrive wherever we go ...
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Peggy Keener: A woman for her time
Was she a businesswoman? A scientist? An inventor? Or a downright disreputable quack? Yes to all. A marvel ...