This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for September 6, 2018, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. One of the perks of retirement is being able to take “cat naps” whenever you want to. During the 66 years of employment at one kind of job or the other, […]
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for August 30, 2018, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Yesterday, I told my wife, “Well, I didn’t have to shoot that d— duck!” She understood what I meant because of an art class incident I have alluded to many times,
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Here’s Ray Spitzenberger’s latest piece of wood art, American Wigeon Duck, — he created it out of four pieces of Hawaiian driftwood and pieces of scrap wood. A wigeon duck is also called a bald pate. It will be sold at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Wallis, Texas, on September 9 and all proceeds from the
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for August 23, 2018, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. School has started up again in our town, and the last minute rush to get ready for the Big Day is over, so now, among other things, the barber shops won’t
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for August 16, 2018, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. When my wife and I married, I was teaching at Wharton County Junior College in Wharton, Texas, and one of the first things she wanted to do was to attend
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for August 9, 2018, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. My playmates in the late 1930’s were crazy about “playing cars,” as we called it, whereby we pushed our toy vehicles over and under the tunnels we had dug in the
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It has been many years since I visited the church, but curiously just this past Friday [28 April 2017] my wife and I were driving from Houston to Austin on Highway 290 and I saw the sign to Serbin. It was the first time that I had been on 290 in I don’t know how
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Dave Oliphant’s poem, “Serbin,” is included in a book of his poems, titled Memories of Texas Towns and Cities. ISBN: 978-0-924047. It was copyrighted and published in 2000 by HOST Publications, Inc, 3507 North Lamar Blvd, P. O. Box 302920, Austin, TX 78703. Oliphant began Memories of Texas Towns and Cities in the autumn of 1974 and finished
“The Way,” Wood Art, 6 August 2018 by Ray Spitzenberger. The cross, the hand with the finger pointing up, and Golgotha (the base) are pieces of driftwood from beaches in Hawaii; two other small pieces of wood are cedar. Here is what I have put on the bottom of “The Way,” a cloth fish. ]]>
“I am the Light of the World,” Wood Art, 17 July 2018 by Ray Spitzenberger. I used a small piece of driftwood from a beach in Hawaii for the flame itself, and the base is a block of wood (probably white pine). ]]>
