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Frank T. Pool

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Pool: Life among the grandkids - Longview News-Journal

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By Randy Ferguson Verified, Frank T. Pool
| Longview News-Journal Verified
This year I realized that it was time to outgrow my avuncular attitudes and to embrace my Inner Abuelo. In other words, I’m old enough to be my students’ dad’s father, not his brother. That’s been a nice shift of perspective. Grandparents often have great relationships with the grandkids.
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Pool: Fragments of an ancient past - Longview News-Journal

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By Randy Ferguson Verified, Frank T. Pool
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On the first weekend of my re-re-retirement, I went to an exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. It was called “Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt.” There were lots of brown papyrus and relatively few other artifacts, although one stood out. It was a small perfume bottle in the shape of a baboon made of faience, a ceramic the Egyptians invented. It was a shiny blue-green. There were also four realistic Roman-era funeral portraits.
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Pool: Spring showers, May flowers - Longview News-Journal

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By Randy Ferguson Verified, Frank T. Pool
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This spring has been wetter and cooler than usual. I have not mowed my back yard this season, and it is strewn with wildflowers and other native plants and grasses. I’m enjoying letting the grass grow. I’ve never watered the backyard. We have a small bed of plants near the storage shed, esperanza and pride of Barbados that my wife waters. But this year I’m just watching what the yard will do on its own. It has been watered enough, and is flourishing.
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