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Candy made special

Updated: May 19, 2013 1:06am

By Jerrie Whiteley

Herald Democrat

For months I avoided the “Candy Crush” notations on my Facebook page. I know they are just games, and playing games can be good for the brain — some...

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Sometimes the picture isn’t worth the pain

Updated: May 09, 2013 1:01am

I was still sitting at my desk writing after 6 p.m. last Friday, which doesn’t happen very often. Then I had a couple of stops to make before I headed out to pick up my Friday night date, my niece...

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Fruit season is back

Updated: May 07, 2013 12:15am

I have to thank, without naming, a local eatery for expanding my taste for salads. Previously, the only fruit I had ever had in salad was a tomato or strawberry. And adding strawberries to spinach...

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Boston remembered

Updated: Apr 16, 2013 9:42am

I might have grown up in North Texas, and I am a true blooded Texan, but if I were to live anywhere outside of my beloved Lone Star State, it would be Boston, Mass.

Boston is my adopted...

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Where is spring?

Updated: Apr 11, 2013 1:01am

I turned to The Weather Channel early this week and saw that parts of the country were expecting snow. I don’t get it. Easter is long gone. That last frosty spell is supposed to be gone too. Isn’t...

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Two great women gone in one day

Updated: Apr 09, 2013 1:01am

The world lost two great women Monday. I am sure it probably lost a great many more women who were special to many, but Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funicello would be hard to beat out in any...

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Time for practical jokes

Updated: Apr 02, 2013 6:09am

Now that April Fools’ Day has passed, I wonder how many people spent the day pulling off practical jokes on their families and friends. That I know of, I was not a part of any such Tom foolery...

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Happy Easter morning

Updated: Mar 31, 2013 10:09am

Easter Sunday already — where did the time go? It seems like just last week the wind was blowing and the wind chill felt like it was in the 20s. Oh, wait, that was last week.

But now Easter...

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Stormy days with movies and cuddles

Updated: Mar 27, 2013 11:06pm

Saturday’s thunderstorms seemed to catch my niece off guard. Luckily one of the child-centered television stations picked that moment to start running a movie I knew she would love.

Knowing...

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Spring is upon us

Updated: Mar 21, 2013 9:29am

Spring is finally here. Winter is finally done — well, you know it is done in theory, anyway.

One can never really get rid of any particular season in north Texas and southern Oklahoma. It...

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