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Talent or Skill?

…”talent” is what people say you have after you have worked like h— for years to improve yourself.”   – Jack Bickham My fellow Okie, and master storyteller, the late Jack Bickham (The Apple Dumpling Gang) clearly sliced it and diced … Continue reading

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I’m the Sentence; Gotta Love Me!

Basic Building Blocks Remember the TV show, the Dinosaurs? It was populated with a family of dinosaurs who talked, dressed and acted like human beings. When the baby became intolerable his simple statement was: “I’m the baby, gotta love me!” … Continue reading

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