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Editor’s Note: Notice the people you knew who slept through high school civics and changed their university major to forestry to avoid college civics have become experts on the Constitution, the Electoral College and political issues of all sorts? They know things. They're also allowed to vote and drive and ...
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Editor's Note: The following story by Jeff Rembert was posted by Ghost Parachute: A Literary Magazine on its website under Blog on May 20, 2020. You’re staring at the screen, and you’ve got nothing. Your mind is a void. You type random words and hope a coherent sentence emerges. Still nothing. Your cat ...
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Editor's Note: Writing a goodbye column was a tradition at The University Daily, the campus paper at Texas Tech University. And I probably wrote mine in a huff. Too many ads. Not enough editorial space. Why my editor, Inez Russell, didn't calf-tie me and leave me in a forgotten barn, ...
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Editor’s Note: The following story by Jeff Rembert was posted by GHOST PARACHUTE - A LITERARY MAGAZINE on its website under Blog on December 20, 2019. You’re new to the writing game. Someone in your past said you had talent, but life got in the way. Family, career, bills and ...
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Editor's Note: While for many the following unfortunately is not the case, those in my world remain well and the experience of isolation, surreal for sure, has been an observation of human behavior. Whether it's folks in denial while shopping without masks, or protesters defying social distancing on the steps ...
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Editor's Note: I wrote the following a couple of years ago, but before I posted, the furor died. And I lost interest. Then a pandemic struck. And with it came idle time. So I dusted off the piece and considered recently acquired context. A fall trip to Pigeon Forge, TN, ...
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Editor’s Note: The following story by Jeffrey Rembert was posted by FORWARD Florida on its website under Legislative on August 11, 2016. Late-night comedians have spent the better part of the past decade and a half ribbing the Sunshine State’s electoral mishaps and for good reason.  Even our well-heeled counties ...
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The following piece originally was posted June 15, 2013, on my first blog "If You Knew the Voices in My Head."  With the discovery of old photographs (and the nostalgia that accompanies such a discovery) and my youngest daughter a year away from joining my oldest daughter as a college graduate, ...
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