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Best Month of the Year

October 1, 2018March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Column, columnist, Communtiy, Dallasite, fall, Len Bourland, October

Best month of the year? Clearly October. It’s a great month weather-wise for traveling abroad, to the country, the lake, or for most of us, finally just

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The Neighborhood

August 24, 2018March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Column, columnist, Community, Len Bourland, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, Neighborhood, won't you be my neighbor

Recently, in my getaway attempt from the Dallas inferno, such was my driver’s fatigue and the heat of the highway

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Summer Gripes

August 8, 2018March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Column, columnist, Community, Len Bourland, summer, Summer Grips, Vent

Maybe it’s the August inferno or the ubiquitous negative news, but even minor nuisances can group up, making life seem

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USA! USA! USA!

July 4, 2018November 15, 2019 Len Bourland 0 Comments America, Column, Community, Crime, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things are Better Than You Think, Fourth of July, Good News, Len Bourland, Politics, Pollution, War

July means the Fourth and all that it entails: fireworks, parades, barbecues, family reunions, pool and lake parties. Embattled politicians

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What’s App’n?

June 8, 2018March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Apps, Cellphones, Column, Community, Len Bourland, Lifestyle, Phones, Screens

What’s on the screen of anybody’s phone or tablet reads like a diary of that person’s life. Having just returned

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Yet Even More Streets and Roads

May 5, 2018March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Column, Community, Dallas, Len Bourland, More Streets and Roads, Streets and Roads, Transportation

As a public school first grader, right after I finished my Dick and Jane readers, my class and I started

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Gun Talk Over Salad

April 5, 2018March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Column, Communtiy, Gun Control, Gun Violence, Len Bourland

My lunch bunch had a spirited debate over school shootings. Some blame violent video games and movies, some poor

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Too Many Tune Ups

February 24, 2018March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Column, Diagnostics, Len Bourland, Living Well

“Diagnostics” is the key word that has governed my life lately. Bodies, automobiles, and computers all are run through diagnostics

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Hate January? Then TGIF

January 22, 2018March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Column, columnist, Community, February, January, Len Bourland, Living Well, New Year

Aaah January. The long, dark, post-holiday month is one to be endured. The W-2s are in the mail, the flu

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Wishing 2017, Good Riddance

December 31, 2017March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments 2017, 2018, A Gentleman in Moscow, Column, Community, Len Bourland, New Years, Resolutions

This is that time when we look back and try to make some sense out of the year gone by.

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The Perfect Christmas Gift?

December 2, 2017March 26, 2021 Len Bourland 0 Comments Christmas, Column, Community, December, holiday, Len Bourland

December is really late fall in our fair city, so we’ll still be blowing leaves out of the yards while