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(c) 2006
Can a Democrat get into Heaven? POLITICS, RELIGION, AND OTHER THINGS YOU AIN'T SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT Columns by Anne Shelby |
CONTENTS Foreword by Gurney Norman 15 How to Use This Book 17 Politics: You Scratch My Money, I’ll Scratch Yours Long Hot Dry Weird Summer 25 Lonely Life of a Clay County Democrat 28 Praise the Lord – and the FBI 30 Welcome to Coal Country 33 Run Over Bad Bill with Overloaded Gravel Truck 36 I Have Been to the Mountaintop – But It Wasn't There 39 Parkway to Prayer 42 Hard to Swaller 44 Regime Change 46 State of the Onion 48 On the Sick List 50 my pinion bout the lection 52 Simple Things: The Mind of George Bush 54 Social Insecurity 56 In Search of the Liberal Agenda 58 Lighten Up, People 61 Religion: The Apostle Paul never said anything about women keeping silent in the newspaper Visit to a Little Country Church 67 Women in the Bible 69 A Woman's Place 71 Fussin’ about the Bible 75 A Wet Week at Bible Camp 78 A Different Bible? 80 Plowing the Middle Ground 83 That Old Time Religion 86 Thou Shalt Not Display the Ten Commandments In the Courthouse 89 The Ten Commandments of Jesus 93 The Gays, the Bishops and the Robinsons 96 Columnist Tries to Avoid Controversy 98 Life Gets Teges: Finding the Mundane in the Everyday How Teges Got Its Name 103 The Creek and the Computer 107 Satellite Dish 110 How to Get Dogs 112 How to Keep Dogs 114 Old Sayings and New Appliances 116 The Long Haul 118 Who What When Where, Why – and What? 120 A Hot Topic 122 Breakin' Up Winter 124 City Water Comes to the Country 126 Quit Makin' Fun of the Way I Talk 129 Why I Hate Hillbilly Plays 132 Mules, Haints & Asphalt Salesmen: Poor, But We've Got Stories Once Upon a Driveway 139 Storehouse of Memories 142 Pea Pickin' Tale 145 One Time There Was This Mule 147 Poor, But We’ve Got Stories 149 Witches, Haints and Hyenas 151 Haint Tale 153 The One About the Turtles 155 Old First 157 Woman at the Well 161 Is This Your Story? 164 Something for the Pain 168 Occasionally Yours: Muddling Through the Year Big Fat Lies 173 Death and Taxes 175 The Cornett Family Reunion 178 Myrtle Beach 180 From Every Mountainside 183 Wildflowers, Women and Song 185 Thousands of Husbands Disappear 187 How to Tell It's Fall 190 Thanks a Lot 192 Corrections & Clarifications 194 What'll We Do for the Christmas Play? 196 Spirits of Christmas Past 198 Christmas Journey 200 A Triplet Christmas 203 They Don’t Make 'em Like That Anymore: Memories and Good-byes Elvis, Happy Birthday in Heaven 209 Remembering Rosemary 211 Remembering Lee Howard 214 Goodbye, Sweetheart 216 Aunt Molly Jackson 218 They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy Anymore 220 House for Sale 224 Fare Ye Well, Old Joe Clark 226 Afterword by Jamie Johnson 228 |
| Non-fiction 230 pages |
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(c) 2012
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