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A column by John Estridge Warning: this column does pertain a lot of boring facts even more so than most of my columns, and it will probably be a lot longer than normal because of the boring facts probably very few really care about. Remember, if you continue, you have been warned. When I got …
Continue reading “Doing my job sometimes emotionally affects me very deeply”
A column by John Estridge It started on a Saturday night with My Long Suffering Wife Ruth and me sitting at the fire pit. The weather was great, maybe a little warm for the fire but who cares and there were still no bugs (mosquitoes) to menace us – or so we thought. Ruth felt …
Continue reading “How a Biblical plague made me even more jaded”
A Column and a hearty thank you by John Estridge, the Fired Editor The blog, whitewatervalleynewsandsports.com, has just gone above the 250,000 views mark. Actually, it is 253,000-plus at this writing. That means the blog has been viewed more than a quarter of a million times in less than one year. I want to thank …
Continue reading “Thank you: At a quarter of a million and counting, it might be a movement”
A column by John Estridge My Long Suffering Wife Ruth said they looked like blood stains, and I could not disagree. I checked the walls for hash marks to tell how many bodies they had found there, but the light was too dim and the grime on the walls too thick to really get a …
A column by John Estridge Recently, I went through a life-changing event. Maybe, I should not put that in past tense, because it seems to be an ongoing event. God apparently put my appendix in a unique place. After I posted on my blog about this situation, the first day upon returning from the hospital, …
By John Estridge … I think This won’t be long which is good for both the readers and the author. These are the facts: My appendix was in the wrong place 2. My appendix burst. 3. I am either too stupid to know when it burst or it is because they were in the wrong …
Continue reading “In the words of another robotic person: I am back”
By Donna Jobe Cronk, a Union County native ON OUR TREE, DAY 4: The 1840s Brownsville Covered Bridge spanned the Whitewater River on the west side of Brownsville, Indiana in Union County until the county could no longer justify its expensive upkeep and on a gray March Saturday in 1974, the morning after our 20-0 …
Continue reading “Friend and fellow journalist Donna Jobe Cronk on her Brownsville Bridge ornament”
A Column by John Estridge I am requesting prayers for the technician I talked to for more than two hours concerning my blog’s malfunction. If that person was not a drinker before our conversation, I’m afraid that person is now. Really, I am not sure it was a person or a computer-generated conversation. If it …
A Column by John Estridge Many, many times every day I feel sorry for My Long Suffering Wife Ruth. And I know, without a doubt, my close female friends who know me well, also feel sorry for her. If anything around the house needs fixed, Ruth grabs her tools and does it. I am not …
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A Column by John Estridge During the mid 1970s when we were still savages without Internet, cell phones or even cable TV, I spent one year at Indiana State University in the lovely smelling, picturesque city of Terre Haute. In the first semester of my freshman year, and my only year of full-time college life, …