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Banjo takes over the keyboard once again
Published: Friday, March 19th, 2021 @ 7:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Since the cat and dog in my cozy mysteries talk to their owner, It will come as no surprise to my readers that I love cats and dogs.
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2021 @ 12:37 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Sure, I’ve begun to stumble as I climb the stairs to the second floor, but I still climb ‘em.
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 9:42 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Writing this column reminded me of all those back to school papers I produced on how I spent my summer
Published: Friday, September 27th, 2019 @ 3:01 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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I have one general guideline for myself in writing my columns: refrain from expressing anger or writing anything controversial -- anything that might cause folks to get up in arms, or worse, angry with me.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 @ 11:51 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Believe it or not, I wasn't always Dad's favorite. I know my fans find that surprising.
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 @ 10:34 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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As a Royal Pooch, it's incumbent upon me to understand dogs so that I can relate to my subjects.
Published: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 @ 10:31 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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I have a huge announcement, huge I tell you. While I've occasionally written columns for Mum when she's busy, I was beyond excited when the editor of the Highlands Newspaper asked me to write columns on a regular basis.
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 @ 6:22 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Wow! Who knew there was a National Love Your Pet Day? I sure didn't, but then Lord Banjo is loved each and every day. Do humans really need to be reminded to love their pets?
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2018 @ 10:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Down here in Atlanta, I attended an author event that was a prologue to the Marcus Jewish Community Center (MJCCA) Book Festival coming up in November.
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 @ 8:15 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Banjo Penn and his mum, columnist and author Kathy Manos Penn, announce the release of their first work of fiction "Lord Banjo the Royal Pooch."
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 @ 3:44 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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When you're a royal dog, you have quite a few people looking after you-not just the royal Mum and royal Dad.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2016 @ 4:35 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Certainly not this boy! While I prefer to be called Lord Banjo, as is only my due given my royal lineage (more on that in my very first blog), I will answer to Banjo Boy, Buddy Boy, the Prince and even just Banjo, but I draw the line at Ninja dog.
Published: Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Ah yes, Daylight Saving Time is here, but I try not to let that change affect my morning routine.
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2016 @ 8:17 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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This column was dictated by Lord Banjo the family dog. He's too much of an aristocrat to do his own typing.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2016 @ 4:37 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Recently I was thumbing through my copy of Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State, an anthology of collected essays by noted historian H. G. Jones. (He wrote a weekly column from 1969-1986.) The editors Randell Jones and Caitlin Jones, unrelated to the history columnist, write that...
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 11:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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To paraphrase the Declaration of Independence: Governments are instituted among men in order to secure man's inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and banjo museums.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 6:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Hartford, along with numerous other musicians and historians, believed that Earl Scruggs was the true reason behind bluegrass music and the banjo's popularity and resonance.
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Citing Bela Fleck's nontraditional technique on banjo as an influence on his approach to the pans, Scales crafts time-slipping compositions drawing on the dissonant harmonies and angular melodies of Thelonious Monk, the experimental classicism of Igor Stravinsky, and the urban swagger of Kanye West
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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