Two Gents' Worth
December 27, 2024
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“Good morning, yesterday, You wake up and time has slipped away And suddenly it’s hard to find the memories you’ve left behind. Remember, do you remember?” (Paul Anka) My life has been a true Game of Numbers. Channel numbers, that is. During the course of a broadcasting career that began more than a half-century…
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The coming of Memorial Day always excited me when I was growing up. It wasn’t because the Indy 500 auto race took place then — though that race was quite an important event, indeed. No, Memorial Day grabbed my attention because it meant that another summer was — at long last! — just around the…
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Yes, we have a new baby in the Hart household here at Tesoro Viejo in Madera County. Like almost every baby, Jessi is cute. She has the requisite two eyes and two ears, a nose that can sniff food from 100 yards away, and a mouth that can instantly inhale that food. Jessi also has…
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The other day, I was having lunch with several friends at the Buckhorn up in North Fork when, for some reason, I mentioned that when I was a young guy, I had owned a Ford Pinto. All of them started laughing. Immediately. After a second or two, I started chuckling, as well — and then…
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Yes, the time has almost come for us to end our nearly two-week trek to Mr. Disney’s place here in Orlando and head back West. We’ve had quite a fine time here, and you always hate to see something you really, really like — come to an end. No, this is not going to be…
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In recent years, it seems that every time Sharon and I manage to make our way to Disney World in Orlando — and every time we receive a nice greeting on the TV inside our resort room — I write a piece on this very blogsite, saying near the top that it might be the…
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It was, incredibly, exactly a half-century ago this very week when I was hired by Channel 30 as the youngest TV reporter in Fresno. I was 23 — and, of course, almost completely unqualified. I had graduated from Fresno State with a degree in broadcast journalism and taken my first full-time broadcasting job as a…
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On the Saturday night before Thanksgiving a few weeks ago, we had to say good-bye to a beloved family friend. And we cried. Her name was Rocky. She was 17. She had started her life by being pulled out of a trash bin by some kindly people who discovered her when she was only a…
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On the week before Christmas more than a half-century ago, I received the greatest gift anyone had ever given me. And it changed my life. Let me tell you a story. I grew up in Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley of California. We did not have a lot of money. But Mom did have…
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