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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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for October 8, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. “Won’t you stay for lunch?” My aunt asked us that as she grabbed a pullet by its legs and chopped off its head. My mother, brother, and I helped her pluck feathers and prepare the
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for October 1, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Before I stopped subscribing to a daily Houston newspaper a number of years ago, my favorite comic strip was Crankshaft, a cartoon character who happened to be a public-school bus driver. I knew several school
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for September 24, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. For “Decades Dress-up Day” recently, my school-teacher daughter wore her East Bernard High School Flag Corps outfit from the early 1990’s – and carried a flag to school. Her students got quite a kick out
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for Thursday, September 17, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. No doubt all writers are at least a tad obsessed with certain topics they find themselves writing about again and again. That’s certainly been true of me in my thirty-some years writing a newspaper
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for September 10, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. After teaching school for thirty years, I noticed an interesting pattern among the students I taught, — the sons of medical doctors quite often also became medical doctors, often pursuing the same kind of specializing
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for September 3, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Although I have written the majority of the many articles, poems, columns, and even a book, about Lee County, Texas, where I grew up, I have actually lived in Wharton County much longer than in
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for August 27, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Festivals have been celebrated throughout the world as far back as history records. Festivals, Fests, Fiestas, Fairs, Picnics! Whatever you call them, there seems to be a strong need for them within the hearts of
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