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Pea Ridge Confidential: Happy Veterans Day

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Ruminations about the South. I heard it through the kudzu vine. Beware of a man with manners." -. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy." -. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Click Here to View:. REMEMBER ME Tribute to Our Troops and Veterans (Youtube). Two years ago 15 year-old Lizzie Palmer from Columbus, Ohio, felt compelled to do her part to remind people of our troops and veterans… and the sacrifices they make. Hey Old Friend,. November 12, 2008 at 9:02 AM. Let's Sing the Blues Together.

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Pea Ridge Confidential: More Succinct than Ordering a Salad

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Ruminations about the South. I heard it through the kudzu vine. Beware of a man with manners." -. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy." -. Tuesday, September 6, 2011. More Succinct than Ordering a Salad. This is one of those pithy, overly simple thoughts that encompasses so much in so few words. In fact, this thought basically encapsulates all human history in nine words. I can't be that succinct when ordering a salad. And, I think that's true. And, instead, start with the basics:.

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Pea Ridge Confidential: Ms. Welty Speaks

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Ruminations about the South. I heard it through the kudzu vine. Beware of a man with manners." -. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy." -. Thursday, October 16, 2008. I love reading Ms. Welty's works. Led me to pick up a Welty book and truly dig in. I was hooked. Her passion and her grace. her biting and eloquent prose. her story telling has since kept me reading till the early hours of many mornings over the past years. Various recordings of Ms. Eudora exist at this link. Aga...Even ...

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Pea Ridge Confidential: September 2009

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Ruminations about the South. I heard it through the kudzu vine. Beware of a man with manners." -. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy." -. Saturday, September 5, 2009. Souls Descending, Hope Appearing. Stinging, sea blue eyes cutting, hurting. Penetrating, silently sinking, falling. Souls descending, down… lower. lower…. Marble exploding, caskets floating. Glowing, flickering canvass sand castles. Empty eyes in the moat looking. Souls descending, down… lower… lower…. Links to this post.

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Pea Ridge Confidential: A New President, MLK, Mother Parks, a Congressman, My Boys and Me

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Ruminations about the South. I heard it through the kudzu vine. Beware of a man with manners." -. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy." -. Sunday, January 18, 2009. A New President, MLK, Mother Parks, a Congressman, My Boys and Me. Last night's bedtime story for my two little boys was about Mother Rosa Parks. A few nights ago we read and talked about Dr. King. Daddy, how would I play with Ethan? One asked me this year about his sweet friend of color. The change I lived through in the ...

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Pea Ridge Confidential: February 2012

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Ruminations about the South. I heard it through the kudzu vine. Beware of a man with manners." -. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy." -. Monday, February 13, 2012. My Mother, Ada Mae Mitchel Strider, A Life Lived for Others. NOTE: This is the eulogy I wrote and delivered at the funeral of my mother on 1/31/12). Tuesday, January 31, 2012. So, I moved to Hong Kong and, eventually, Washington. Certainly, I speak for my siblings, who are, as we all know, so… old. As I’ve...Well, no matt...

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Pea Ridge Confidential: Talking Pea Ridge at Princeton

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Ruminations about the South. I heard it through the kudzu vine. Beware of a man with manners." -. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy." -. Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Talking Pea Ridge at Princeton. I recently gave a lecture at Princeton University (the Woodrow Wilson School.). I even talked about shelling purple hull black-eyed peas on the front porch with Grandma Essie and Mamma Hattie (Rogers Bell would be mighty proud.). I hope you enjoy:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? This is a bl...

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Pea Ridge Confidential: Spiritus Ferminti... Nothing Like Taking a Stand and Sticking with It!

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Ruminations about the South. I heard it through the kudzu vine. Beware of a man with manners." -. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy." -. Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Spiritus Ferminti. Nothing Like Taking a Stand and Sticking with It! I woke up on this fine Election Day thinking about Judge "Soggy" Sweat and his famous comments on the legal status of whiskey in Mississippi back in the 1950's. This is a good day for perspective. I hope you enjoy. Topples Christian men and women from th...