C’mon in — the door’s always open …

Now, just find yourself a good chair and sit a spell while I show ya how this thing works (oh … just overlook the sawdust this once, okay? I’m just finishin’ up the woodwork here so we can be “open for business” before th’ next ish …):

Y’see, a long time back (I figure about twenty-two years ago), I was asked to write a little column in a paper called The Pineville Pioneer (huh?? It’s in North Carolina, just a little south o’ Charlotte …). Well, the editors liked that one so much that they asked me to do two more: one about our local school and the other about television shows.

Then the paper was sold and the new editors asked me just to cut it down to one big column for, by and about people and issues of the day. (Hmph … said they liked my style of writing! Guess they could read “chickenscratch” …)
Now, I didn’t know how well it’d do, but … well, people seemed to like it, and it was picked up by three other papers in the local area! I was bein’ called The Eagle by those students I was writin’ about earlier, so the moniker stuck.

When I left for the tall timbers of Appalachia (actually, Ashland, Kentucky), the column was continued in one of their papers on a monthly basis! Again, it seemed that everybody liked it … but, then, the paper folded (no pun intended. I suppose …). So, now, thanks to the wonderful folks here at Today.com, I’ve opened ‘er up to the internet, and … there’s gonna be a new edition every day of the week now!!

NEWS YOU CAN USE After a few words at the top of the page where we can just chill out for a minute, we’ll get to this section.

Huh? Awwww, we’ll talk about news and other stuff that folks can use in their everyday livin’! The good part is that you send the ideas in! Just email topics you wanna talk about, or leave a message in the comments section here, and we’ll cover ‘em in the next post! Just make sure someone can get some good outta your idea, okay??

STREETSIDE: Here, I usedta get out on the streets, into the coffee shops and malls, and find out what folks were jawjackin’ about. Then I’d print it in my column (providin’ it was clean). No names were ever used without permission from the folks who were doing the talkin’.
Now, if you’ve got your “ear to the ground” wherever you live, just take a few notes on what people are sayin’ and send ‘em in! I won’t use any names, natch, but it’ll be worked up and your neck-of-the-woods will get a little free publicity out of it all!

SPOTLIGHT In the original Coffee Talk, I took one specific person, place or thing that really made a difference to folks in the area. Today, I wanna do the same thing, but I’m countin’ on you to send those who you believe need a bit of recognition … and it can be from your area!

Now, if ya notice, everything’s written in a sort of “dialoguish” way.  The reason:  People talk that way!

Okay … I’ll be back tomorrow with more, but we <em>had</em> to get-on-board with this first post.

So, until then, this guy’s gonna hit the sack for about 360 minutes.  But I will be back … and that’s when we’re gonna start this thing properly!

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