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Writer and editor, desiring to entertain and enlighten, focusing on the good, beautiful and true in the present and the past.

Joy and Bah Humbug

Posted on July 7, 2018April 3, 2020 by CSB

I needed to recalculate. Their joy was contagious in spite of my prejudices–I just had to catch it and pass it on.

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Perfect Tree Out of the Twisted Forest

Posted on March 30, 2018December 6, 2018 by CSB

Below is a Good Friday and Easter poem centered around the Bible’s use of trees. It is written by Leslie Leyland Fields, a prolific writer, speaker, and Alaskan fisherwoman. Her website is http://www.leslieleylandfields.com . She kindly allowed me to reprint this poem with permission. Accompanying artwork is from artists of my church, First Presbyterian Church, Colorado…

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Billy Graham

My Press Conference with Billy Graham

Posted on February 23, 2018July 6, 2018 by CSB

It’s time to be grateful for Billy Graham, who died Wednesday at age 99. I have several BG stories, but what means the most is that Billy was the focal point of my first press conference in 1971. Afterward, the story that resulted became my first journalistic byline in Texas Christian University’s The Daily Skiff….

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