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Andy Sullivan: Against The Grain

After years of plugging away, recording demos, etc. you finally have that big hit.  Your debut album soars up the charts like a rocket.  Nothing can stop you.  Then you release your sophomore album and it is so enormously terrible! You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by, the sophomore slump. 

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Patty Craig: A Slice of Time

The Kentucky Wildcats have had an awesome year. John Calipari's team had a 31-0 record in the regular season, then went on to win the SEC tournament last weekend, changing their record to 34-0. They have certainly been successful by anyone’s definition. Success means different things to different people, but it is often defined as the accomplishment of one's goals.

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Cheryl Hughes: Vocational Rentals

Sometimes, when I’m channel surfing, I’ll land on one of those KET shows where people are sewing or wood working or gathering mushrooms or something else mother-earthy.  I watch as they make tidy stitches (their words, not mine) and precision cuts with just the right tools that are always in their proper place, not strewn about the floor or table.

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Jarrod Jacobs: Believing In God Or Believing God?

There is a difference between believing in God and believing God. There are many who claim to believe in God, saying that they are aware that One greater than all has made this world. However, there are few who truly believe God. If people believed God, we would not face so many of the problems we are facing today.

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Andy Sullivan: Against The Grain/Oh Snapple!

It’s time for another Snapple column! I love the little-known facts on the insides of the caps.  Without further ado, here we go.  There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.  People don’t sneeze when they are asleep because the nerves involved in the sneeze reflex are resting.  Six year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.  Adults only laugh 15-100 times a day.  No wonder kids are so much more joyous.  Here’s one that Sheldon Cooper would enjoy: brain waves can power an electric train. 

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Patty Craig: A Slice of Time

Last week, Alex DeMetrick (WJZ, Washington, D.C.) reported that a sign of spring has been identified: Washington’s cherry trees are budding. According to the report, the National Park Service anticipates that Washington cherry blossoms will peak April 11-14. As we eagerly watch, signs of spring abound in our region, too.

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Don Locke: Lookin Thru Bifocals

When I reached seventy I thought the world couldn’t get any crazier. Now that I’m past eighty I see I was bad wrong.

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Cheryl Hughes: Untimely

My Career As A Woman

When we went to Western together, my friend, John, used to gripe all the time about how bad his timing was.  It had improved greatly by the time he completed his master’s degree at Austin Peay.  A couple of years after that, he walked into the professorship in the guitar department just as David Kelsey exited that position.  Don’t get me wrong, John worked hard for both those degrees—they don’t just hand them out—but, a few years later, his timing would adversely affect mine.

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Jarrod Jacobs: “The Tiger Picture”

  A few years ago, I saw a picture that I have not forgotten. It was a picture of several friends who had gone on a hunt and had killed a tiger. The men were all smiles as they posed in the picture. It was a neat picture. The irony is that this picture was on the wall of a man who was an Alzheimer’s patient. The picture hanging on the wall meant nothing to him anymore. Yet, there are several things this “tiger picture” taught me.

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Legislative Update: Senator C.B. Embry Jr.

After a successful beginning to the week in the Senate, extreme weather conditions on Wednesday evening into Thursday prevented us from holding session on Thursday and Friday. The LRC offices were closed on Thursday, but were re-opened on Friday and we held a caucus meeting to discuss some remaining issues facing the final days of the 2015 session.

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