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Unusual Places I've Lived In or Near in My 90 Years
Tree, Goose Island GALVESTON Alabama Coushatta Indians - Livingston Golden Gate Houston Ship channel t
Andy Pate
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A WEEK LATER
THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL Pastor Andy Pate JOHN 20:26-31 Sermon for April 27, 2025 A WEEK LATER So begins our scripture for this morning,...
Andy Pate
3 days ago5 min read
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ATTENTION, FANS !!!
We are finding it necessary to charge a small fee for our coverage of 2025 Texas high school football. Before September 1, 2025, the...
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5 days ago1 min read
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When You Grow Up Surrounded by History, And No One Tells You
To this very day, more than half a century later, I daresay that some of the boys and girls still living from that era do not have the...
Andy Pate
Apr 162 min read
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Refugio's Master Artist
By Putt. On these pages we have said a great deal about the fine athletes who've come out of Refugio but barely mentioned the guy who...
Andy Pate
Apr 151 min read
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Winning Texas High School Football, All Within Two Years
By Coach Putt Pate A coaching friend once told me that to field a winning team you must first have "the hosses." I agree. but those...
Andy Pate
Apr 141 min read
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Apr 130 min read
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When a President Enjoys Losing More than He Does Winning
Only recently, amid "Our World Tariff Crisis," have we discovered who Donald J. Trump really is, a guy who enjoys losing more than he...
Andy Pate
Apr 82 min read
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It's Long Past Time for them to Speak Up!
They've been silent for way too long. For decades now, they've had their mouths shut when those mouths should have been wide open and...
Andy Pate
Apr 72 min read
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When Last Words Are the Most Important
In delivering a speech perhaps the first step you must take to be successful is to get the attention of your audience. Its members could...
Andy Pate
Apr 52 min read
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The Crippling Separation That Escapes the Wonder of Oneness
I saw a photo a couple of days ago that disturbed me greatly, and still does when I look at it (see below). I don't recall ever seeing...
Andy Pate
Apr 32 min read
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Apr 30 min read
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Can the USA Reverse Its Downward Plunge?
The question is not "If?" it's "How long? " before we the citizens of the USA wake up and admit the obvious: Under Trump and Musk, the...
Andy Pate
Apr 32 min read
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Queen Eleanor and Her Want-a-be King
Eleanor Sparks was a very attractive young woman. She was short in stature but had a lovely profile, a nice figure, and extraordinarily...
Andy Pate
Apr 11 min read
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First, They Came for Me....
And everyone who could spoke up on my behalf. Alas, to no avail. I was quickly taken away and a few days later flown to El Salvador,...
Andy Pate
Apr 11 min read
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For Me and My Carol, the Bell is Ringing
I don't know whether I can rightly say that I fell in love with her on first sight (I was 9; she was 7). But I can say I think such...
Andy Pate
Mar 292 min read
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Polls and Our Pitiful Politics
A good friend, Rube Cage (deceased) had an avid interest in anything political but when the polls would come out during candidating, he...
Andy Pate
Mar 281 min read
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Tales in Orange and Black - #5
by Putt I begin with another story connected to the 1953 Bobcat Team that lost to Huntsville in the state semi-final. It must have been...
Andy Pate
Mar 262 min read
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