This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for December 17, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. When I was born in 1934, the 1934 edition of children’s poems, entitled The Christopher Robin Verses: ‘When We Were Very Young’ and ‘Now We are Six,’ was published by E. P. Dutton and Co., […]
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for December 10, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Many years ago, I read an article suggesting that people, especially men, and their automobiles are like turtles and their shells. Turtles cannot live without their shells, because the shells are fused to their bones.
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for December 3, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Happy New Year! Advent began a few days ago for many Christians who celebrate the Church Seasons, and it begins the New Church Year. Most of us who observe Advent do so by lighting the
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for November 26, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. By now, everybody has read about or watched on one of the news channels the poignant story about the little saw-whet owl that was found in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree after the bright-eyed, feathered
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for November 19, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. A few days ago, one of my granddaughters came by the house and told me I looked cool, because I had a “mullet” haircut! “What’s that?” I asked. After she explained the trendy
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for November 12, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Probably the closest thing I have ever seen to a real stagecoach was the horse-driven funeral hearse, still owned and preserved by Knesnek’s funeral Home in Wallis. It seemed to be modeled after a 19th
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for November 5, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. German-speaking people immigrated from Germany to Texas in large numbers in the 1800’s. In Wharton County, not quite as many, but there were enough German-Texans in Lissie, Texas, to start a German-language Lutheran church in
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for October 29, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Neither my parents nor I were ever rich enough to buy a new car every three or four years like some of our friends would do. We always bought “second-hand” cars (as they were called
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This article my Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for October 22, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Some common aphorisms annoy me, the most bothersome one being, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” My annoyance is mainly due to the fact the axiom implies that lemons are not the best thing
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for October 15, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Most, if not all, general stores in the 1920’s and 1930’s made many of the things they sold, — such as cornmeal, vinegar, pickled boiled eggs, etc. Before she married my father, my mother worked
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