Wallace Renfro

  • Thank the Lord for Diarrhea Well, guess what happened on the way to the holidays. I mean, there I was heading into Thanksgiving with what I considered to be some health issues that it didn’t seem likely would be addressed until after the end of the year. I knew something was wrong. My balance was…

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  • On not taking refuge This posting will seem like a departure from my usual Letters From the Old Hyde Place; and in a way, it is. It is more contemporary. But that was inevitably going to be the case. My history from the Old Hyde Place, the stories themselves, isn’t endless. But I like to…

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  • The President is dead I always remember the day and the times. But the times seem more relevant recently. I’m certainly a different person than I was as a 18-year-old just starting to college in the midst of a tumultuous time — the 1960s. Those years shaped some my beliefs as the result of political…

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