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Write Again . . . And who was Naomi?

“Children, just remember that the first one-hundred years are the hardest.” That sage advice was just a dollop of the wisdom that Naomi would share ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, May 15, 2017 3:08 pm

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Write Again . . . Home then and now

When we moved back home in September of 1991, into our new home built smack dab in the middle of what had been a hay ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, May 8, 2017 2:10 pm

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Write Again … “I think to myself”

“I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom, for me and you.” Sitting on our back porch, looking out over the ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, May 1, 2017 3:16 pm

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Write Again … But did you know?

The Great War, 1914-18. Arguably the most significant, horrific, catastrophic event the world had ever experienced, is also among the least known and understood portions ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, April 24, 2017 6:05 pm

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Write Again . . . It’s just my theory

A friend and I were discussing a book we had both read. We also mentioned other books we had read. Book talk. Another person was ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, April 17, 2017 3:21 pm

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Write Again . . . You haven’t any idea

Would that I had the wordsmith skills to tell you what I see and hear when I attend one of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s annual ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, April 10, 2017 3:27 pm

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Write Again . . . Let us be grateful

There are those in our state, specifically those who live west and south of Raleigh, who really have very little appreciation for all that we ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, April 3, 2017 5:30 pm

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Write Again . . . The ties that bind

They spent almost all the days of their youth living with their families in the Green Court Apartments in Washington Park. So many people lived ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, March 27, 2017 3:17 pm

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Write Again . . . Mending broken hearts

Our Beau — one of the many Boston Terriers that have been a part of my life since before I even began school — was ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, March 20, 2017 5:24 pm

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Write Again … About those nicknames

“What’s in a name?” asked Shakespeare. Well. Old Will asked a good question. What, indeed, is in a name? More specifically, what is in a ... Read more

by Bartow Houston, Monday, March 13, 2017 2:15 pm

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