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Columns January 30, 2008  RSS feed

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      Calm down. Just take a moment, a deep breath, close your eyes, relax, open your eyes, and calm down. The recent downward spiral of the stock market has people worldwide fearing a recession. Recent interest rate cuts had no immediate impact, thus inciting more fear into the financial community.
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SCENE IN PASSING
      It is time to flip our calendars and say good bye to the first month of the new year. Turn your calendars back 60 years, to 1948, and you will be on our wedding day. That Jan. 30 was also frigid with snow and ice. After the exchange of vows in Huntsville, we slipped and slid into Houston. Was a new motor in our newly bought used car a hindrance or a help?
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HIGH POINTS FROM EL CAMINO REAL
      Life along El Camino Real continues to move at a steady pace as folks go this way and that about their daily business. It is hard to believe that it has already been five years since our world was shaken up as the space shuttle Columbia was torn to pieces over our heads, leaving a debris field scattered across East Texas.
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