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Stress Awareness Month: Can We Survive It? | Tyrades!
“Stress Awareness Month,” sponsored every April since 1992 by the Health Resource Network, is now half over. Are…
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Reflections On My Mother’s 90th Birthday | Tyrades!
As my mother’s 90th birthday arrives, I realize that in the nearly 57 years our lives have overlapped,…
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Sears, Kmart, Malls: My New Worry List | Tyrades!
My wife and I met on a blind date at a Bonanza restaurant in a nearby shopping mall…
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Happy 75th Birthday To Capitol Records! | Tyrades!
In the peak years of my scouring yard sales and junk shops for second-hand, dollar-bin vinyl record albums,…
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Will The Nation’s Truckers Be Replaced By Robots? | Tyrades!
“It takes a special breed to be a truck drivin’ man/ And a steady hand to pull the…
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Let’s Applaud History’s Greatest Teenagers | Tyrades!
Help! There’s suddenly a teenager in the Tyree house!
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Senior Discounts: Boon Or Menace? | Tyrades!
My mother’s favorite supermarket is undergoing a mysterious “repeal and replace” operation with its senior discount program. Of…
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Do Obituaries Really Have To Be Polite? | Tyrades!
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” — William…
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Are School Newspapers Hanging By A Thread? | Tyrades!
I wish I could tell you that my old alma mater (Marshall County High School in Lewisburg, Tennessee)…
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Presidents’ Day: Untold Stories Abound | Tyrades!
Since Presidents’ Day is fast approaching, it is appropriate that three of the books I’m currently juggling on…
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30 Valentine’s Days: Where Did The Time Go? | Tyrades!
While brainstorming angles for this Valentine’s Day column, it suddenly occurred to me that this February 14 will…
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Save Our School Talent Shows | Tyrades!
It seems there’s a shortage of the old Hollywood Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland “Hey, kids - let’s…