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Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word "heo", which also was the plural of all genders. The word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. "She" probably derived from the Old English feminine "seo", the Viking word for feminine reference
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21:8, The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #124
The Gettysburg Address
July 15th, 2002
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I feel a couple of butterflies fluttering around ever so slowly in my stomach even now, much in the same manner as they did many years ago as the minutes crept by. Maybe twelve years old and about to stand in front of a large audience to give a speech, and the first time to stand alone in front of such a large crowd. The crowd included my Mother who I believe was sitting right in the middle of this gathering. That helped a bit of course. Behind me on the same stage standing in neat rows were all of my classmates who were twitching nervously as well. My classmates and I were not on the best of terms at the moment since they had elected me to be the one to wear a top hat and beard and make this speech. None of us wanted to win that election. Grumbling twelve year olds. Can you imagine?
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Posted by Webmaster on Sunday, April 02 @ 14:03:31 EDT (773 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #123
July 4th on Main Street
July 8th, 2002
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I had a couple of comments on the July 4th historical story from last week’s column and one came in a phone call from my old history teacher, Coach James Kelley. He told me of an additional event associated with that same day in history, July 4th, 1826 that was as momentous as the entire story of Adams and Jefferson. I could go ahead and tell you what it is, but after scratching my head a bit I think I have a better idea. Next July 4th, only 11 months and a few days away now, I will re-tell that story and you will see what else the Coach had to add to this tale of history.
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, March 16 @ 21:36:06 EST (1042 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #122
July 4th Story
July 1st, 2002
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July the 4th is here and this year I believe the sounds of patriotism will be ringing louder and sharper than any in our recent memories. Most of us were not around during this holiday for the duration of the Great War years, but possibly it will be something comparable as we pass the midpoint of the year 2002. Our country has survived an attack and is still fighting for all the freedoms our forefathers won for us. Independence Day is our day of patriotic celebration.
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, March 16 @ 21:28:35 EST (736 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #121
Corsicana Business Rumors
June 23rd, 2002
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Each day I drive to work in Dallas I see the continuing progress of the new Super Wal-Mart being built in Ennis. From the first ground breaking to its current state I have watched each stage as it has risen from the ground to become the large white structure it is right now. Now that I think about it, have you ever seen a white Wal-Mart before? Must be a new design.
And of course every time I see it the car slows down for just a bit to listen to me grumble about the ghost Super Wal-Mart that is not sitting on the Highway between Corsicana and Kerens yet. I keep a close eye on what Neal Williams has to say in the newspaper each week hoping to catch a clue about where the Corsicana Chamber may be going with this project. Neal is going to bring us some good news one of these days.
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Posted by Webmaster on Tuesday, February 21 @ 21:16:50 EST (920 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #120
Space Mountain
June 16th, 2002
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One thousand and one hundred miles is how far it was to vacation land this summer. At least that is what the odometer said once we arrived in front of the Hotel and piled wearily out of the car. Maybe I should speak for myself when I say wearily, because the youngest boy bounced out and was ready to jitterbug before the engine had even started to cool down. Me, well I listened to my joints creak as I gingerly stretched my legs and felt around beneath the car for some solid pavement with which to do a balancing act.
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Posted by Webmaster on Tuesday, February 21 @ 21:12:59 EST (761 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #119
Spiderman
June 9th, 2002
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Summer time is here and that means it is time to get with the program. “And what might that program be?” asks the Kerens Blonde as she puts on her bright red lipstick. Well, if you keep your eye on the news from those hard working ladies at the Kerens Library then you might be able to hazard a respectable guess. Some people might say baseball is the national past time, but that kind of withered away for me whenever Catfish Hunter took that first big free agency contract, left the Oakland Athletics and started the decline of traditional baseball.
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Posted by Webmaster on Saturday, February 11 @ 22:10:58 EST (717 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #118
Graduation Night in Kerens
June 2nd, 2002
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Out of all the events and activities that go in within Kerens each year, there is one that you can count on being an absolute packed house. Young and old and all of those in the middle are jockeying for a seat before the clock strikes 8:00 p.m. and the crowd begins to grow silent in anticipation. The boys and girls about to enter the next stage of their lives are laughing and cutting up; the grownups have their cameras ready to catch these treasured moments of transition for their children.
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Posted by Webmaster on Wednesday, February 08 @ 16:48:14 EST (842 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #117
Career Day at Kerens High School
May 25th, 2002
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I walk into the doors of this large building that I have not visited for many years and it seems so eerily vacant. The hallways are quiet where I expected noise to be bouncing off the walls. Memories are rolling around in my head of times gone by and I wonder just how much the decades have weathered the rooms I used to know so well.
Two people are standing alone in conversation and one turns towards me with a smile I recognize in an instant. The feeling of being lost speeds away into the distance as Dixie Bell asks me what in the world I am doing at Kerens High School during the beginning of a school day. I could have closed my eyes at that moment and imagined Jack Bell hollering at me to cut my sideburns or he was going to get the paddle after me. The kids were already in their classrooms, settled down, and contrary to what you might hear on the news in other cities, there is order in this school system.
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Posted by Webmaster on Saturday, January 28 @ 23:48:32 EST (814 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #116
Commuting to Dallas
May 19th, 2002
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It is right about 75 miles from Kerens to Dallas where employment opportunities abound for those with an interest in big city employment. Many of you graduating seniors from Kerens High School will be faced with a decision sometime in the near future of whether to commute to this area of many jobs, move to the big city, or whether to seek a place close to home to begin your career. So here are a few tips to maybe help as you ponder your future choices.
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Posted by Webmaster on Saturday, January 28 @ 23:20:06 EST (672 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #115
Game Night at the Alumni Center
May 12th, 2002
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The words from Ted Price were: “The Ice Cream and Pecan Pie at the Double D Café is the best I ever had.” I could tell while watching him sit beside his brother Perry in the Alumni Center Saturday night that he was thinking about going back for more too. Talk about supporting your hometown, these two brothers came all the way from their homes in Houston to play some dominoes at the Alumni Center Game Night. Not only did they throw those Bones around on the table, but they threw in a few tales of Kerens as well. If only the walls of this building could record these stories, what character they would possess as they become further ingrained in the historical culture of Kerens. Memories are being built on this foundation in the same manner as the sidewalk of commemorative bricks continues to grow.
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Posted by Webmaster on Wednesday, December 14 @ 22:47:17 EST (754 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #114
Silicon Valley
May 5th, 2002
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“Silicon Valley” is the mythical name it goes by, but I could possibly come up with a few other names to describe the heartland of new technology companies in the U.S.A. Located just South of San Francisco in the Bay area is where you will find these dot com people. The ones who live by the keyboard and die by the next startup company that pushes them out of business.
I just returned from spending a few days in Silicon Valley visiting with SUN Microsystems and want to describe a place that is almost like a foreign country when you contrast it with the heartland of Rural America, namely Kerens, Texas. SUN is a company started by a couple of college kids at the University of California, Berkeley that mushroomed into one of the largest provider of UNIX based compute servers in the world.
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Posted by Webmaster on Monday, December 12 @ 00:12:03 EST (693 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #113
Weston Wallace
April 28th, 2002
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I did not know Weston Wallace. In fact, I did not know him at all. Knew the name whenever it was mentioned, but that was only because his son was in my class at Kerens High School some years ago. This past Saturday I was checking a few things out on the Kerens web site and ran across a new obituary our Mayor had posted announcing the passing of Mr. Weston Wallace.
He had passed away on Wednesday and I had not heard. He was buried on Friday at a funeral that had already passed into time. Obituaries are so dry. They list the names of relatives and pallbearers. A few facts of their history typically appear with a few other odds and ends, mostly ends. Nothing about the person, the real person behind the words will you read.
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Posted by Webmaster on Monday, November 07 @ 19:51:47 EST (861 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #112
Speed Family Reunion
April 22nd, 2002
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“Speed Bumps” were installed in the Kerens Alumni Center this past weekend and there were plenty of them by the time the flowers quit growing and the leaves started to fall. Got to slow down those “Speeders” from crossing that green Bobcat floor too fast.
If you happened to drive down Main Street on Saturday, you probably noticed those red bricks had a lot of visiting wheels parked on them. Cars were lined up in front of the Alumni Center and City Hall. I hope the new Double D Steakhouse benefited from some out of town visitors as well. Many of the people in attendance at this event mentioned they were going to check it out before heading back home again. The perpetual Kerens supporter Ted Price needs to send an email to the Tribune and tell us all how his family liked the new restaurant.
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Posted by Webmaster on Sunday, October 30 @ 17:21:48 EST (766 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #111
Somebody Hacked Kerens.Com
April 8th, 2002
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We had a break-in the other night, and it was scary too. There was a little damage done but it could have been worse. He (or she) came in the middle of the night when no one had an eyebrow raised and then used the tools of the trade to gain entry.
Doesn’t it really “hack” you off when someone decides to have fun by taking liberties with property belonging to someone else. Especially when the someone else is you. Oh well. Speaking of “hack,” that is exactly what happened here in the home residence of Kerens.Com.
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Posted by Webmaster on Monday, October 24 @ 22:00:07 EDT (725 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #110
The Origin of Kerens.Com
April 8th, 2002
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Once upon a time a few years ago I was sitting in my office at home tinkering around with a new piece of software I had brought home from work. It was a new release from Microsoft titled “FrontPage” designed specifically to allow people to design their own web sites. Microsoft was late to the game getting into the Internet arena because a young upstart company had beaten them to the punch. A company by the name of “Netscape” founded by a person with a new vision for the future of communication via the Internet. Marc Andreessen was the founder with help from anther entrepreneur by the name of James Clark.
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 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a
creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely
a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the
bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact
that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth
to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the
very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more
afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by
an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam
as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea--and
put him at the head of the procession.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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| Tuesday, July 22 | | · | Kerens.Com #169
Student Scholarships
June 2nd, 2003 |
| Monday, June 02 | | · | Kerens.Com #168
First Time to India
May 26th, 2003 |
| Monday, April 14 | | · | Kerens.Com #167
Annika Sorenstam & Golf
May 19th, 2003 |
| Friday, April 04 | | · | Kerens.Com #166
Mother's Day at KESA
May 12th, 2003 |
| Thursday, March 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #165
Dayton Flight Museum
March 5th, 2003 |
| Tuesday, January 01 | | · | Kerens.Com #164
Speed Bumps
April 28th, 2003 |
| Thursday, December 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #163
KESA Easter Luncheon
April 21st, 2003 |
| Tuesday, November 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #162
KESA Easter Luncheon
April 14th, 2003 |
| Tuesday, November 13 | | · | Kerens.Com #161
Born in the U.S.A.
April 7th, 2003 |
| Saturday, November 03 | | · | Kerens.Com #160
Puppy Dog
March 31st, 2003 |
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