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For nearly 30 years, Gary Borders chronicled life’s foibles and adventures in daily newspapers both behind and beyond the Pine Curtain — a sobriquet for Deep East Texas he has helped popularize. Among the diverse topics are the perils of plumbing, the at-times dubious joys of parenting teenagers, the delights and dangers of woodworking, the simple pleasures ofa walk along a shrouded country road, and the tragic events of the crash of the space shuttle Columbia in Deep East Texas. Borders’ essays were distributed for many years by The New York Times News Service and published in newspapers across the country. This is the first collection of columns in book form.