The Fire Eater

The Digital Day

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Out on the cyberhighway, up in the Cloud, and, most certainly, in Big Brother’s scrapbook, the Digital Day has dawned. Like it or not. Not long ago, perhaps less than a year, you used a computer to jump on the Internet. You sat in a chair or took your laptop …

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Squirrel Hunting, Theology, Banking, and the Confederacy

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 The Life and Times of Bazz Childress as Seen Through the Eyes of One Friend My first introduction to Bazz came in the form of a handwritten letter from him informing me how touched he was by an acoustic performance I did at a Confederate Memorial Service in SE Kentucky …

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One Final Rabbit To Chase

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Just days after marking the 24th anniversary of my Dad’s passing at the young age of 54, I received word some days ago that my dear friend, a man I will ever call one of my brothers, Basil D. “Bazz” Childress, had passed away peacefully in his sleep on April …

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Bazz Childress, Requiescas In Pace Domini

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For my dear friend and fellow Fire Eater, Basil Dwayne Childress, who went home to the Creator a little over a week ago: We who see must look upon that which is. Unflinchingly. And were it not for you, Bazz, these many years would I, and others, have seen so …

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