Tag: storytelling

member name: Harry Covert
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Hoppy, Topper and Me
by Harry Covert
views: 25 | rating: 10 | comments: 15
February 20, 2006 12:55 PM EST -- A BOY GROWING UP IN THE late forties and the early fifties was crazy about cowboy movies.  In my case, I was nuts about Hopalong Cassidy. To this very day in which some folks might call . . . more
Day With The Colonel
by Harry Covert
views: 12 | rating: 10 | comments: 10
February 28, 2006 01:35 PM EST -- (NOTE: A humanitarian travesty is on-going in Darfur, Sudan.  Here's a piece regarding my time in Sudan.)    A FEW YEARS AGO I TOOK ADVANTAGE OF AN   . . . more
April 12, 2006 04:24 PM EDT -- I remember a time in a small African village in what is now called The Congo.  I had been working in Kinshasa, the capital city of Zaire in 1990 to set up a food, medical supplies and clothing distribution.  . . . more
The Hunt and Peck Method
by Harry Covert
views: 98 | rating: 10 | comments: 23
August 05, 2008 11:46 AM EDT -- I learned how to type at about 10 years old and I did it on an old Underwood typewriter. What a machine. My father had bought it for $25, secondhand. He kept it on a rickety table in his little attic . . . more
A Real Fish Story
by Harry Covert
views: 21 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
April 16, 2006 07:45 AM EDT -- Whenever my friend David called from upstate New York, he was ready for a fishing trip.  He was the sort of man who constantly looked for excuses to wet a line.  To him, it was an art form.  . . . more
July 10, 2007 08:45 PM EDT -- It saddens me to hear about the recent murders and suicide of the professional wrestler Chris Benoit and his family.   How tragic.   For whatever reason, some are trying to make the case . . . more
August 19, 2008 08:19 PM EDT -- The Internet, satellites and television bring us instant news and events from around the world.  We're in a different age.  It is exciting.   It is a small world. . . . more
February 19, 2006 07:40 AM EST -- I learned at about 10 years old how to type and I did it on an old Underwood typewriter.  What a machine.  My father had bought it for $25, secondhand.  He kept it on a rickety table in . . . more
February 17, 2006 11:41 AM EST -- Once I had a boat on which I loved to ride up and down the beautiful Chesapeake Bay not far from the city of Baltimore in Maryland.  On one particular Saturday morning a few years ago Christopher . . . more
April 08, 2006 10:45 AM EDT -- A FEW YEARS AGO, TALKING with a southern newspaper friend of mine, I asked how he kept a happy attitude, just what kept him smiling.  I was aware of the considerable family problems he had encountered . . . more
April 09, 2006 10:29 AM EDT -- A baseball pitcher from the 1950s, the late Leroy (Satchel) Paige, once said "never look back, somebody may be gainin' on you." I love old-time radio and history. And there is certainly . . . more
 
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