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82Texas Sayings And Words Visitors Should Know
Since the winter is fast approaching there are more and more northerners down here in the south. Often they are short term visitors; not exactly snowbirds but you get the drift. Sometimes just trying to talk...
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82Naked Ladies In My Pasture
Sometimes it is hard to tell the changing of the seasons in warm climates. There certainly isn't the dramatic foliage change here in Texas that I am used to from living in Canada, but there is one sure sign...
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64The Death Of Decorum In Our Time
Decorum, now that is a word that isn't used much anymore, but is perhaps a word that should be dusted off and brought back into mainstream language. It seems, at least to me, that a little decorum would go...
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65The Best Homemade Tex/Mex Hot Sauce Recipe And A Pretty Damn Good Fresh Salsa
When I moved to Texas I became an instant fan of a lot of the different types of salsas, hot sauces and picco de gallo (fresh salsa) that are available. Throughout the harvest seasons experimentation with...
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80Avast Ye Matey: The Origins Of Seafaring Sayings
There are a lot of sayings about different professions and areas of interest that have somehow worked their way into our typical, daily conversation. Many people are surprised to find out how many sayings we...
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56Lack Of Sleep At Night May Be Ruining Your Day
It seems that the world just keeps speeding up. There are more things to do, more ways to stay in touch, more demands on all aspects of your life and still the same number of hours in each day. With the...
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69Why I Will Never Buy Another Dog – And Maybe You Shouldn’t Either
All my life I have loved dogs and have never, except for my years as a university student, not had a dog in my house. Even in those days I had dogs, they were just living with my Dad on the farm since they...
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86Weird And Wacky Canadian Place Names, Eh
As a Canadian living in Texas I am often asked about how to pronounce different place names from within my native country. Just as the United States has many place names derived from different languages, so...
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77Weird Texas Place Names And Their Origins
One of the many benefits of traveling a lot for your job is that the back roads and byways, not just the interstates, become your beaten paths. The other day as I was driving through Cut and Shoot, which is...
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78Hugging Etiquette Basics
There are those that are huggers and those that are not. I have to admit I am in the last category, however I am not as "anti-hugging" as I used to be. In my travels I have definitely found that in some...
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