Paul O'Rear -- Friday, October 24, 2008, 9:31 PM (No Comments)
Categories: Sound Off!
Tags: 4H, Amber Simpson, Content Mastery, Farm Animals, FFA, God, Howard 8th Grade Center, Paraprofessional, Susan O'Rear, Teacher's Aide, Waxahachie ISD, Wikipedia
Susan and I were sitting and eating supper together tonight, and she was telling me about her day. She works at our School District’s 8th grade campus as a Paraprofessional (Teacher’s Aide) in Content Mastery. The teacher with whom she works is a young lady in her mid-20′s named Amber.
Cattle in the field (courtesy of Patman Charolais)
Susan and Amber were running a couple of errands together after school, which took them outside the city limits. They passed a field with cows, which naturally provoked a conversation about farm animals. Susan raised pigs when she was in high school, and both of our children raised pigs for 4H and FFA from about 4th or 5th grade on. So Susan knows a lot about pigs. You never know when that might come in handy — like today, for instance.
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Paul O'Rear -- Thursday, September 25, 2008, 10:31 PM (No Comments)
Categories: Favorite Songs, Music, Sound Off!
I love music. Always have. I started collecting records when I was in junior high school — back before the days of CD’s. By the time I graduated from high school, I had amassed a collection of over 300 LP’s. I still have all of them stored away in a cabinet in our “junk room”, and have even added to the collection through the years thanks to garage sales and thrift stores.
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Paul O'Rear -- Thursday, September 11, 2008, 12:29 PM (No Comments)
Categories: America, Ashley O'Rear, Cancer, Sound Off!
Tags: 9-11, Alan Jackson, Ashley O'Rear, Children's Medical Center, Dallas Texas, Mark Davis, New York City, Susan O'Rear, Waxahachie Texas, WBAP, World Trade Center
Country singer Alan Jackson sang a song entitled “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)?”, referring to that fateful day in 2001 that will forever be remembered simply as “Nine Eleven”.
Do you remember where you were?
I will never forget.
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