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recently sat with my wife, Ann, in a surgery recovery room at St. Vincent’s Hospital.
As she smiled and talked I became aware that this wonderful woman was giving me the rarest of gifts: she was simply
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Date:
2/10/2010
As I write this, snow is falling heavily. Snow doesn’t fall like rain, loud and aggressive. Snow, it seems, falls mute from some quiet past.
This snow fall finds me remembering a crucial time in Birmingham’s
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Date:
2/3/2010
I once joked with a friend that by my reckoning most Alabama fans did not attend college and they would not have a wardrobe if not for football season. During that same conversation many years ago, I
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Date:
2/1/2010
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Bill Caton is a native of Alabama, raised in Birmingham. He graduated from Auburn University in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Caton has worked for more than 30 years as an editor and writer for newspapers and magazines. He is director of workforce development and public relations for the Alabama Associated General Contractors, which has won four national public relations excellence awards in the past 10 years.
Caton is the author of several books, including Fighting Words: Words on Writing from 21 of the Heart of Dixie’s Best Contemporary Authors and Josh and the Flat Cows. Of course, none of this qualifies him to review movies.