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By Benny Hornsby, READ MORE > 341 Reads
On Wed, 07/29/2020 - 02:30 PM

I keep reading where some empty suits in government want to defund or otherwise eviscerate the post office. They must be living in some alternate universe other than the one I’m in, because I think we need the post office more than ever. For my money, it’s the best deal in town.

‘Hong Kong Delight’

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On Wed, 07/15/2020 - 04:38 PM

When Gertrude Stein, the expatriate novelist and literary critic, famously said, “there’s no there, there,” she was referring to her hometown of Oakland, California; however, because of recent events, this gibe could now apply to the former British colony of Hong Kong, which has just been subsumed by China, swallowed by the dragon, in blatant co

Hornsby: My unlikely love affair with the sea began on a dirt farm outside of Lumberton, of all places

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On Wed, 07/01/2020 - 05:48 PM

During the pandemic lockdown, several people I know have sheltered in place at Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, the Redneck Rivera, but nobody asked me to go.
I guess I’m bad company, or maybe they think I have cooties, but I can understand their desire to head to the water. I like that area myself.

No one dies any more

By Benny Hornsby, READ MORE > 2,486 Reads
On Wed, 06/17/2020 - 04:29 PM

My brother-in-law died last week. In church. Right after singing two hymns to the congregation as his wife played the piano. Not virus related. Natural causes.

Memories of riding the rails and hearing that familiar sound

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On Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:51 PM

I heard it before I saw it. But I knew what it was – possibly the last steam engine to run south on the tracks by my old home place at Lumberton.

Sophistication is no hindrance when it comes to worrying about the causes of deadly disease

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On Thu, 05/21/2020 - 12:07 AM

I saw the recent press briefing on television and, no matter how you parse his words, President Trump DID NOT recommend injecting disinfectants, such as bleach, into the body to fight the coronavirus.
He simply asked a question.

Some people simply refuse to believe the truth

By Benny Hornsby, READ MORE > 2,079 Reads
On Wed, 05/06/2020 - 09:07 PM

Have you heard it? The whispering and the murmurs off stage? Like the chorus of an ancient Greek tragedy, suggesting that the current Coronavirus crisis is just a jumped-up hoax, a conspiracy to take away some vaguely articulated “rights,” but more specifically rumblings about freedom of assembly and lockdown by decree?

Some people simply refuse to believe the truth

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On Wed, 05/06/2020 - 09:07 PM

ONLY THE LONELY

By Benny Hornsby, READ MORE > 1,542 Reads
On Wed, 04/22/2020 - 07:49 PM

Loneliness, brought on by isolation, is a common emotion during this coronavirus lockdown; and for some segments of the population, it can be deadly.

In fact, recent research shows that, among the elderly, it can be as deadly as many chronic diseases.

EASTER: A moveable feast

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On Wed, 04/08/2020 - 07:45 PM

Shining like a light house in the gloomy, stormy seas of the coronavirus is the promise of Easter Sunday, a day of rebirth, renewal, and resurrection.

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