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"Sometimes I stop and try to figure out where the stories come from and why I write the way I do. I'm sure much of it is a result of the land I grew up on and the people who were trying to scratch a living from it. If he stays in contact with it long enough, the land will brand a man as surely as the red-hot iron brands a Western calf. I'm sure the flat, almost treeless, bayou-studded Delta of my early years, which later was replaced by Mississippi's rolling, red clay hills, both left their marks on me....My father was a good storyteller and I suppose I picked up some of his talents. There is...

Remember the stories your grandfather use to tell you about way back when? Remember laughing out loud as the stories got deeper? If you like to LOL than this really is a book for you.

Some observations on life in general and people in particular as seen through a collection of newspaper columns, presenting skewed, off-beat, semi-serious, and sometimes amusing views of the world.

Dr. Luke Boyd is a writer for the Williamson Herald and Mature Lifestyles magazine.
Dr. Boyd retired after serving for 19 years as Principal of Battle Ground Academy, a private, college...

It was the Depression and very few areas were as economically depressed as the rural South. The road in front of our house was dirt (mud when it rained) and with no electric lights and no plumbing, we lived a bare and stark existence. There was no money to purchase entertainment so we made our own. Whether rocking on the front porch before bedtime or sitting around the kitchen table after supper, it was story time. Daddy was a storyteller and had a number of tales he told on a regular basis.
Stories flew thick and fast when visitors were in the house. With my uncles it was tales about...

This is a fairly literal translation of the Daodejing. It doesn't project later philosophical or religious beliefs back onto the 2500 year old text. Instead, it approaches the text from an anthropological perspective and retains all of Laozi's allusions to the animistic beliefs and religious practices of the Ancient Chinese during the Warring States period.