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When Billy Brewer was fired as Ole Miss football coach in 1994, he needed only a few months of continued state service to collect his retirement. I was serving as State Auditor, so I called my old friend and said, “Coach, don’t worry. You can come to work for me and get the time you […]
By Steve Patterson Dear Mr. President, I am a man of straightforward candor, so let me go ahead and clear the deck. I don’t like you. I have voiced my dislike for your bravado and otherwise distinctive “style,” both in writing and to any and all who sought my opinion. I am but […]
It recently struck me: I had become a hater. That’s right; I had learned to hate. Life had been my teacher. As a child, I was prohibited from using the word hate. I had a strong dislike for fried eggs, but was not allowed to hate them. Hate was just too strong a word. Hate […]
[su_quote]“Invective: Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language.” Oxford Dictionary[/su_quote] [su_quote]“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he is learning, for that is what he will know.” Annie Dillard[/su_quote] Is it possible to gain the Presidency of the United States through the use […]
[su_quote]“Until 1953, there was no Italian food in Havana. All we ate was Spanish food. Then Santo Trafficante opened three Italian places in Cuba so he would have different places to eat. I met him three or four times. I was about 17 or 18 years old when I would see him. He was a […]
[su_quote]“When the mint is in the liquor and its fragrance on the glass, it breathes a recollection that can never, never pass.” – Clarence Ousley (1863-1948)[/su_quote] The hypnotizing melody of frogs croaking, crickets chirping and a pair of whippoorwills crying in distant harmony signals the beginning of a new season. The air is now delicious […]
[su_quote]“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson[/su_quote] [su_quote] “In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves – self-discipline with all of them came first.” – Harry S. Truman[/su_quote] In […]
Editor’s Note: When arriving at Patterson Pointe Lodge, Steve Patterson’s home a couple of hundred yards up the hill from Sardis Lake in Panola County, you know immediately that the man loves bird dogs. Two bird dog statues stand watch over the drive leading to the breezeway between the main house and stables/bunk house. The interior decor of the house — which […]
Editor’s Note: Great energy and a good education; success both in business and public service; family and countless friends; financial security; deep Christian faith– Steve Patterson had an abundant measure of the good life. Then an unpleasant and unexpected turn of events, during which he had the most memorable Christmas of his life. This is […]
[su_quote]“Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trials had they not found a friend.” – Charles H. Spurgeon “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk […]
Editor’s Note: After I begged him for several months, my friend Steve Patterson finally wrote something for NAnewsweb.com.* America’s Dilemma By Steve Patterson [su_quote]“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your […]
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