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Guest Column: Ready for the bathroom of tomorrow?

Bathroom floor tiles that weigh you, analyze your gait and evaluate your fall risk. Bathroom mirrors that initiate telehealth conferences based on...

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Will you still need me, will you still feed me?

During my career as a late-in-life columnist, I have been blessed with the opportunity to chronicle three birthdays ending in zero. (My so-called...

12.04.2024 3

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Ever have a work spouse?

You probably have quite a few co-workers with whom you exchange chitchat, banter and superficial observations on current events. (“I fervently...

06.04.2024 2

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: So you acknowledge Jesus as a wise teacher? Really?

It’s probably not the Easter message you expected, but for the sake of argument, let’s set aside miracles, repentance, heaven, hell and claims of...

30.03.2024 2

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Guest Column: Has the Pentagon shattered your faith in UFOs?

Well, THOSE eagerly anticipated revelations certainly crashed and burned. You may recall last summer a former intelligence officer told Congress that...

20.03.2024 4

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Guest Column: What does spring break mean to you?

You probably crave a break from my patented “sour grapes” routine, but we must face facts: spring break (a.k.a. Easter break, a.k.a. mid-term...

12.03.2024 6

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Am I overthinking slang?

By Danny Tyree As a writer, I can't deny harboring an appreciation for the richness of slang, metaphors, similes and colloquialisms. And yet...there's...

02.03.2024 4

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Am I overthinking slang?

As a writer, I can’t deny harboring an appreciation for the richness of slang, metaphors, similes and colloquialisms. And yet…there’s something...

02.03.2024 7

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Have you ever taken full responsibility?

‘I accept full responsibility.”’ In your lifetime you’ve doubtless heard umpteen public figures (elected officials, bureaucrats, corporate...

23.02.2024 4

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Ready for an Apple Vision Pro world?

What an amazing coincidence! Two days after Apple released its much-ballyhooed Vision Pro contraption, Joni Mitchell gave her first Grammy Awards...

12.02.2024 2

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Using the right Valentine’s Day questions?

While struggling to find a suitable angle for this Valentine’s Day essay, I lucked upon some “Reader’s Digest” clickbait. The article talked...

05.02.2024 2

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Should students be bribed into attending classes?

Are truancy officers about to get help in fighting absenteeism? According to the New York Post, the Ohio legislature is considering a bipartisan pilot...

29.01.2024 2

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Guest Column: Do you suffer from the 'stillgottas'?

Despite my best preventive measures, I have spent decades enduring the “stillgottas.” If you are unfamiliar with the medical terminology, it’s...

22.01.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Been at your job too long?

13.01.2024 3

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Aaaaay! Is 'Happy Days' really turning 50?

Oh, for simpler times with fewer adult responsibilities and fewer high-tech distractions! Then I might manage to finish reading two excellent...

09.01.2024 3

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Could you pass a citizenship test? Really?

Okay, maybe I’m approaching this from a position of privilege. One of my earliest memories is of tagging along to my mother’s former grammar...

02.01.2024 2

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Will you be busted by a 'noise camera'?

‘Just when you think it’s safe to be a jerk on the roadway…” Motorists in many cities have grown accustomed to the likelihood of having their...

26.12.2023 4

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: What can the nativity teach us?

‘The right place at the right time.” I realize that not everyone recognizes Jesus Christ as the Son of God (or even a real person); but for...

18.12.2023 3

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Will golf be recognizable in 20 years?

A course is a course, of course of course … Or is it? According to those madcap bean-counters at the National Golf Foundation, the number of...

11.12.2023 3

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Would you like to sleep through Christmas?

It was never as high-profile as “Rudolph” or “Frosty,” but it’s worth noting that the animated special “The Bear Who Slept Through...

04.12.2023 2

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Danny Tyree

Have you ever caused a scene?

I understand some commentators are accusing Target of scoring less than a bullseye in dealing with shoplifters. The retailer encourages the police to...

28.11.2023 2

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Will 25-year milestone bring a second wind?

Well, that quarter-century went by faster than the weaver’s shuttle! (Almost as fast as younger readers Googling, “What the %$#@& is a weaver’s...

22.11.2023 2

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Danny Tyree

Will my 25-year milestone bring a second wind?

By Danny Tyree Well, that quarter-century went by faster than the weaver's shuttle! (Almost as fast as younger readers Googling, "What the %$#@& is a...

18.11.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

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Guest Column: Organize any dog birthday parties lately?

One of my co-workers has an autumnal tradition of spending a week of quality time with her dog Alfie around his birthday. Some may find that...

13.11.2023 2

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Danny Tyree

Organize any dog birthday parties lately?

By Danny Tyree One of my co-workers has an autumnal tradition of spending a week of quality time with her dog Alfie around his birthday. Some may find...

11.11.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Must I glue my eyes to the TV?

By Danny Tyree I had forgotten about it, but my father once reminisced about finding elementary school-aged me habitually "watching" TV with my back...

04.11.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Must I glue my eyes to the TV?

I had forgotten about it, but my father once reminisced about finding elementary school-aged me habitually “watching” TV with my back turned to...

03.11.2023 2

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Should society slam the brakes on this trend?

By Danny Tyree Kicking and screaming were not involved, but it did take our 19-year-old son Gideon an interminably long time to show an interest in...

28.10.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: What’s the deal with last-minute homemade Halloween costumes?

When I searched online for potential Halloween-column topics, I encountered innumerable headlines screaming about fun, easy, last-minute homemade...

23.10.2023 3

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

What's the deal with last-minute, homemade Halloween costumes?

By Danny Tyree When I searched online for potential Halloween-column topics, I encountered innumerable headlines screaming about fun, easy,...

21.10.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Will Ozempic chew up the food industry?

‘Are ya haaawngry?’ In the 1990s, that question by the late Harold Rowland became a running gag after church every Sunday, as he inquired where I,...

18.10.2023 2

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Danny Tyree

Will Ozempic chew up the food industry?

By Danny Tyree "Are ya haaawngry?" In the 90s, that question by the late Harold Rowland became a running gag after church every Sunday, as he inquired...

14.10.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Is this remnant of American culture doomed, y'all?

‘Where’s your Bayer?’ I vividly remember that question from my high school job working in a convenience market in my Tennessee hometown. A buxom...

10.10.2023 2

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Danny Tyree

Guest Column: National Newspaper Week and the newspaper that never was

National Newspaper Week (October 1-7) compels me to acknowledge my journalistic catastrophe of fifth grade. Based on my passion for reading...

03.10.2023 1

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

National Newspaper Week and the newspaper that never was

By Danny Tyree National Newspaper Week (October 1-7) compels me to acknowledge my journalistic catastrophe of fifth grade. Based on my passion for...

30.09.2023 1

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Are you obsessed with spicy foods?

Hot peppers bring tears to my eyes, but so does a family anecdote from my young adulthood. I was living with my parents and slept during the day...

26.09.2023 2

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: Are free refills the arch-nemesis of the Golden Arches?

So, now the fuzzy purple critter isn’t the only “grimace” I’ll associate with the McDonald’s chain. “I’m lovin’ it” was assuredly...

18.09.2023 2

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Danny Tyree

Are free refills the arch nemesis of the Golden Arches?

By Danny Tyree So, now the fuzzy purple critter isn't the only "grimace" I'll associate with the McDonald's chain. "I'm lovin' it" was assuredly not...

16.09.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

Guest Column: How are you in the best friend department?

‘So, Dan – what are you doing tonight?” After 40-plus years, I can still hear one of my best friends from college asking that dreaded question....

16.09.2023 1

Yuma Sun

Danny Tyree

How are you in the best friend department?

By Danny Tyree "So, Dan – what are you doing tonight?" After 40-plus years, I can still hear one of my best friends from college asking that dreaded...

09.09.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Danny Tyree

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