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Posts Tagged ‘mark tullis’

Summer senses and hide-n-seek

By Mark Tullis | June 24, 2025

There’s something about summer that sticks with you. Not just the heat or the longer days, but the way it wraps around your memories and pulls them out of hiding.…

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June wedding | Mark’s Remarks

By Republic-Times | June 17, 2025

My grandparents were married 97 years ago on June 8, 1928. I was fortunate enough to be around them long enough to ask a million questions and sort of have…

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Choosing conversations | Mark’s Remarks

By Mark Tullis | June 10, 2025

OK, so I told everybody I wouldn’t be writing any more columns about teaching, kids, parents and retirement. I’m a big talker.  I also said in February that I’d lose…

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Summer reboot | Marks’s Remarks

By Mark Tullis | June 3, 2025

Are any of you like me and often get in a mundane rut?  When the days start to get a little longer and the weather reminds us that sunlight and…

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Parties everywhere… but no food | Mark’s Remarks

By Mark Tullis | May 27, 2025

his is the time of the year when there is so much going on, we almost feel like it’s a holiday season of sorts. Someone called the month of May…

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The informality of our youth | Mark’s Remarks

By Mark Tullis | May 20, 2025

I have often thought of the contrasts that present themselves when we look back at our early days on this earth; or for that matter, even before we got here.…

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School laziness | Mark’s Remarks

By Republic-Times | May 13, 2025

I just saw a Snow Angel Challenge video, which the kids call reels these days. It was a guy in swim trunks who had been challenged to dress that way,…

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Too much sittin’ around | Mark’s Remarks

By Republic-Times | May 6, 2025

I’m coming up on one year since I retired from a 34 -year teaching career, and it has flown by at warp speed. I didn’t think it would. I wasn’t…

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Peacekeeping | Mark’s Remarks

By Republic-Times | April 29, 2025

It occurs to me quite often how many of us spend an enormous amount of time trying to be proactive with people.  If you are a people pleaser like me…

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Favorite quotes of Lewis | Mark’s Remarks

By Mark Tullis | April 22, 2025

We recently saw a performance of “The Screwtape Letters,” a story by C.S. Lewis which was made into a 90-minute play. It was extraordinary. I would recommend reading the book,…

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Sittin’ in church | Mark’s Remarks

By Republic-Times | April 15, 2025

My brother and I have had issues with giggling for a long time. We have a mutual twisted sense of humor and if one of us goes off the rails…

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Victim mentality | Mark’s Remarks

By Mark Tullis | April 9, 2025

eing the victim is a lot of fun sometimes. You often get a lot of attention, at least for a while, from people who rally around you, feel sorry for…

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