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“It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more.” – Frank Cross, “Scrooged” Oh it’s the most magical time of the year again and I LOVE it! The Christmas Season means so many things including, family being…

I would rather hunt ducks than do anything else pertaining to the outdoors. I remember when I was laughed at for doing so. It was in the early 70’s in December when I lived on a mountaintop out west of Harrison, Arkansas. I had been hunting on Bull Shoals Lake for much of the day…

I forgot momentarily how it felt to be cold. But a few nights ago, I realized I was underdressed, and it was a chilly walk from my car to the door of my home. Cold has behaved itself fairly well this year, but it has shown up in the early dark evening hours of the…

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Ronald Reagan understood the power of communication and achieved it with the relaxed ease of a man with a hefty background in radio, television and films. Indeed, he was labeled The Great Communicator for good reason. He got his message across and was awarded the presidency twice. Reagan was popular with all but the miserable…

You can have the traditional thanksgiving dinner. I guess you likely will. I never did like store-bought turkey; it is tasteless and dry and if you have a slice of one when you are young you can bet it never is going to get better as many years of Thanksgiving pass. Maybe it should be…

Kathleen Romig, Senior Advisor in the Office of the Commissioner, joined the latest episode of SSA Talks to discuss the Social Security benefits available to children. These include: • Survivors benefits for children if their parent dies. For more information, please read our publication titled Survivor Benefits at www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10084.pdf. • Supplemental Security Income (or SSI)…

Thankfulness should never become a punchline. I am a firm believer that you and I should not become accustomed to sitting down at the Thanksgiving table and routinely rattle off our blessings. After all, there’s something that happened this year that is unique, a special addition or change that has occurred in my life that…

I wanted to start out this column with a little humor, as this may be one of the funniest Thanksgiving lines ever on television. If you want a good laugh and you aren’t a card-carrying member of PETA, check out the clip online. Now that we’ve had a little laugh together, let’s talk turkey. Not…

Once a fellow called me to report seeing a hen pheasant down on the Arkansas-Missouri border. I knew exactly what he had seen. I had just seen something similar… a roadrunner. About twenty years ago I saw a road-runner up here on Lightnin’ Ridge about forty yards from my back door. The bird, which is…