How do I like the beach? Let me count the ways. I have no desire to go the mountains for anything other than the change of the season. The beach has always been my favorite destination. I do not l...
Administrator’s Corner Congress, Debt Impasse and Leadership There is a difference between believing in principles and foolishness. There is a difference between vision and plays for personal power and status. The...
Looking back and ready to look forward I have been contemplating about this column throughout the week, and it sort of saddens me for some strange reason. But I guess some things have to be done, sometimes time and circumstances dictat...
Community should pool, create resources Nationwide, times seem to be getting just a little worse, with politics taking a more ugly, partisan, devastating turn for the country, resulting in the debt crisis, the possible default of Americ...
Eddie Ayers readies for another day. Can Congress? I sometimes love the poetry that circulates; some of it rivals that of the Out House Poets for new walls of the stalls. The poetic purveyors of prophecy and other assorted poetry have moved from th...
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Eddie Ayers, "Ayering it out, again"St. Pauls Review
A family reunion quandry and a black family pledge Well, my family reunion is coming up and I am again debating if I should attend. I have been listening to my mother lecture about everyone coming together and all of grandchildren being with her an...
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D.D. Stanley, "My Point of View"St. Pauls Review
Just a reminder, we make the news, we are the news As a member of the news media, I pay close attention to it, and that includes the good, the bad and the ugly. I do not believe that the news media is as guilty of being to blame as it often is por...
Congress, Debt Impasse and Leadership There is a difference between believing in principles and foolishness. There is a difference between vision and plays for personal power and status. The...
I have been contemplating about this column throughout the week, and it sort of saddens me for some strange reason. But I guess some things have to be done, sometimes time and circumstances dictat...
Nationwide, times seem to be getting just a little worse, with politics taking a more ugly, partisan, devastating turn for the country, resulting in the debt crisis, the possible default of Americ...
I was thinking about the 1950s and how sterile, generic, just plain old vanilla favored the decade was. It was as was our television, it was Black and White. All the old TV shows were in blac...
It’s almost impossible to rely on the federal government, but, boy am I! I’m talking tax return here, people, and I’m talking as fast as possible please, Uncle Sam. Your nephew needs a bail-out a...
There is something to be said for a great and painful hurt--it allows us to forget the minor, tawdry things with which we occupy our days. Loss jars us back to reality, the reality of love among t...
Well I guess the Fourth of July finally caught up with me. I wanted a vacation just like everyone else had! So I left work early, Monday night, and refused to work when I got home. You know why d...
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Eddie Ayers, "Ayering it out, again"St. Pauls Review
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The Treasury may be printing fewer dollars, but I’m going all cash. That seems to be the new battle cry. This is something I thought you might give some thought to. After I read this on Yahoo and ...
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Eddie Ayers, "Ayering it out, again"St. Pauls Review
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Its been pretty hard for me to get back into the swing of things, in St. Pauls. You know things like the bars that stay open to 0400 hrs while the county closes it bars at 1200 hrs, after opening ...
Religion, politics, sex. Three things that were never discussed at my house when I was growing up. Three things that we children were encouraged to never speak about, much less argue over. No...
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D.D. Stanley, "My Point of View"St. Pauls Review
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My daughter is going to summer school, yet she does not like to read, if it is not junk, then it bores her and she cannot learn if she is bored. Imagine that It is hard to teach young children, es...
There was an important meeting scheduled for 7 PM in the library. I had the key to the library door. But about 6 PM, when the fatigue of the very exhausting day, another one, overcame me like exha...