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Due to earth\'s gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.
And Now You Do
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24:21, My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
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Foxtales: Sharing Private Things
Markings of Mine
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
For starters, I want to use a few sections from my personal journals that I started writing in high school. "Fox Tales" is the name I gave to the mélange of words that I came, in time, to call a newsletter for want of a distinct word at an extraordinary time in 1995. The end was in sight to stop writing a weekly column for a newspaper. Transition from a weekly news column to a monthly newsletter was a smooth one, as I needed it to be.
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Foxtales: The Lady In Fur
There Are Some Decent Things Not Obtainable By All
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Since I am especially curious about mysterious things, I want to relate this humdrum incident that may appeal to only a few. I hope not, but it is highly possible; so here is the prosaic incident so hard for me to explain: and is really nothing at all. As in "It Has All Been Much A Do About Nothing."
I worked with a woman in the 70s who just couldn’t figure out some of the things I did, or things that just happened naturally. She had always gotten everything she ever wanted, no matter what. She was an only child, and her mother saw to it that she got the whole shebang as her heart desired.
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Why is it that all the old adages are making more and more sense to me these days? I liked it better when I didn’t know the meaning of the old wisdom, and said, "Duh...I don’t relate". So, If you understand the depth of wisdom in the phrases, it could mean that you, too, are getting dangerously close to becoming a charter member of the distinguished Senior Citizen Society. I’m not going to use the word old. It’s one of those three letter words that I try to never say. (I must be more worried about the three letter words thatI use than the four letter ones.) lol
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Foxtales: My Dad and I.....and the Collins Street Bakery Wedding Cake
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
When my father (Jarrell Simmons) worked for IDEAL BAKING CO. out of Tyler in the fifties, no one could talk him out of taking me with him on his route each Saturday! I tried every trick I had in my bag, without any luck. I could not sweet-talk my way out of this one! Saturdays were my special days, and I didn’t want to give them up.
My grandmother, Bessie tried to tell me that something good always comes from something bad, but sometimes it just takes you a lot longer to see the good. This incident challenged that wisdom. I should have had faith in her discerning words, because I was soon to see the good in the situation arrive, in the form of two ‘notably handsome guys.
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Foxtales: The Last Hoo Rah Rah of the Bobcat Cheerleaders of 1956
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
My senior year was exciting for me in a lot of different ways. Looking back, I suppose it was a tiny bit frightening, too, because the closing of any door gives you butterflies in the pit of your stomach. Probably the most exciting thing I did that year was try out for cheerleader, and make it. We went to Sam Houston College in Huntsville that summer for a cheerleader school. It had also been referred to as an ‘intensive’. It didn’t take me too long to find out how that name was chosen. From day one, it felt as if I were in boot camp. Well, maybe not quite that bad. Have you ever noticed that writer’s occasionally exaggerate? lol
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Her Foot Was Too Big For The Slipper
But She Was So Beautiful
We Said, "What The Heck You Can Be Cinderella, Anyway, And.........
QUEEN FOR A DAY AS WELL!"
And So She Was!
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Foxtales: The Sadness Multiplies………..Another Water Story
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Last week’s article about Dodd’s Lake, told only a small portion of the complexities I’ve encountered in my life concerning water; in this case swimming pools in particular. This article does not directly have it’s roots in the events of my youth in Kerens Texas, but since it all started back then and continues still, I wanted to share it with my fellow Kerensites. I’d like to relate the most traumatic event of my life, in hopes it might, in some small way help someone else with a pool to be even one little bit more cautious; especially while having visitors over to swim and dive.
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
My Aunt ‘Giggs’ didn’t believe me when we discussed the fact that I could remember specific details from my early life, when I was one through three years of age, so I had to prove it to her. She thought, like most would, that I just thought I remembered because I had overheard someone telling ‘all’ the stories, and thought they were my memories.
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Foxtales: A Stroll Down Memory Lane
BUBBA’S BUBBLING BATHTUB
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Don and I took "A Stroll" two years ago this October, through, what I call the Big White House. We were driving by that White House, that October day, when Frances Lee called out to us from her front yard to ask if we were looking for someone. Don answered her by saying, "My wife used to live there". She invited us in to take a stroll through if we wanted. I was excited to get to go into the house, after all these years. Each room I entered set off the triggers for my cascading recall.
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
If I wanted to be negative toward myself, I'd name these pages, "Amateur Antics". I'm aware that I'm not 100% correct in everything I write. I know and remember all the proper rules of sentence construction, but I have become of the mind-set that I just want to do these "markings" the way they feel right as I'm writing them. That is definitely freedom, if I know FREEDOM.
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Foxtales: Foxtales
The Lady’s Pearls of Wisdom
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Nobody wants a visit from gloom and doom by way of other downcast people who are always complaining, and coming out with a myriad of yak yak complaints about ills and troubles. With a letter, the receiver does, at least, have the option of not reading past the first inkling of a dismal dialogue. Even if you have all kinds of safeguards aimed toward avoiding negativity, sometimes, it visits anyway, because people who hurt…want to be comforted and listened to and told how sorry you are.
"Stuff just happens." The other version with one less letter isn’t to be used by dignified grandmothers. Well, I’ll say that things just happen; and I won’t have to worry about saying potty mouth words. That being the case, it still does not mean that other people want to hear endless accounts of your latest vexation. Believe it or not, talking about some things makes them worse, even for the one who is in a state of decrepitude. The person, or persons trying to comfort you are putting forth a brave effort, and a loving one as well, but sick folks just need their space and solitude until they heal. Mine hasn’t, so I’ve become somewhat of a non-social person, which isn’t my nature at all.
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Foxtales: Foxtales
THE TOUCH OF THE MASTER’S HAND
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
T’was battered and scarred, and the auctioneer
Thought it scarcely worth his while
To waste much time on the old violin,
But he held it up with a smile.
"What am I bidden, good folks", he cried,
"Who’ll start biddin’ for me?"
A dollar, a dollar...who’ll make it three?
"Three dollars once, three dollars twice,
Going for three"...But no!
From the room far back a gray haired man
Came forward and picked up the bow;
Then wiping the dust from the old violin,
And tightening up all the strings,
He played a melody pure and sweet,
As sweet as an angel sings.
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Foxtales: Foxtales
Entertaining Angels Unaware
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
I have taken out about half of the extraneous details original to the first Foxtale. When I edit, I save superfluous material in a special file. That file is brimful of trivia and way too many details as you can probably imagine if you’ve followed my writings. (Wouldn’t you know it, details are my favorite part, but sometimes get in the way of telling an interesting story.) They bog the reader down.
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Foxtales: SHE WAS THE QUEEN OF A TURNED PHRASE
My Grandmother
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Did you ever wonder just how a particular phrase got its start? Well, I have! I should wonder since I was brought up speaking in "coined and cache’ phrases" that were mindfully strung together with a scant few, but very necessary prepositions and things of that sort in order for the phrase to be complete.
My maternal grandmother was truly the "Queen of a turned phrase." I spent a lot of quality time with her, so it was only natural that some of it would rub off on me. Bessie Grant, was her name, and she was a woman after my own heart. We became remarkably devoted, and in all regards just "good ole" gossip buddies.
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Fashion Tips
There has always been a quasi-rule among fashion coordinators. To build the basic wardrobe, one must first have, for instance, camel color, and black. This is just for an example: many other colors will work. You should use only two colors for this example. You might start out with a camel skirt with jacket and matching slacks. Always buy every piece offered in the ensemble, and buy a very good brand…one you trust.
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 It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.
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| Tuesday, September 02 | | · | A Strong Desire.. Not To Make Anyone Feel…“Less Than” |
| Monday, September 01 | | · | Two Touching Adventures |
| Monday, March 05 | | · | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN |
| Wednesday, August 23 | | · | Two Personal Things That Can Go Terribly Awry |
| Saturday, February 11 | | · | And The Class Laughed On... In Living Color |
| Tuesday, November 29 | | · | The Eggs and I |
| Monday, October 17 | | · | The Foolish Foxter and her Big Red Can |
| Thursday, August 25 | | · | Times Then…Times Now |
| Saturday, August 13 | | · | Look Before You Leap |
| Saturday, July 23 | | · | DARRELL MABRY....LITTLE DARLIN |
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