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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Rose and Louis -- in the New York Daily News

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      The article below was published Tuesday (June 26) on the op-ed page of the New York Daily News , and it is centered on my parents, par...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

We have been on the move

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     Had to wait a couple of days for this: Thank so many of you for your birthday/Father's Day messages. Think I hit the 300-plus mark ...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Here's your ticket, and the cost is ... $220

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      Took a $220 right turn at a "STOP" sign this morning.       Received my first ticket in a dozen years for it. Did not dese...
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Friday, May 4, 2018

A package sent to Europe (on a return trip)

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      Today we had two pieces of artwork -- wrapped in a nice package -- sent to our cousin Heleen in Belgium.       That is a simple sente...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

What's in a nickname: Tech's Blond Bomber

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     So, in case you were wondering 50 years later about the best of Terry Bradshaw's nicknames ...      My old buddy, O.K. "Buddy...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Remembering the Holocaust ... and Charlottesville

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Rose and Louis ( The Shreveport Times  photo)      This Sunday afternoon, I will be thinking of Mom and Dad ... and millions of other pe...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Baseball needs a shift in the scoring rules

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       Don't want to change how baseball is played, only how to mark it up on the scorebook. My thoughts are on the  designatedwriters.c...
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Nico Van Thyn
Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, came to the U.S. in 1956 at age 8, grew up in Shreveport, La., graduate of Woodlawn High School and Louisiana Tech University, sports writer/editor/copy editor for 45-plus years.
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