Shelbyville Times-Gazette: Columns: Doug Dezotell

Missions on his mind (02/20/09)
I've had missions on my mind a lot this week, and I've been praying for people from Africa to Arizona, and thinking about people who speak Swahili, Spanish, English and Navajo. I'm planning to lead a group of about 20 people from my church on a home missions trip to minister to children from the Navajo, Hopi and Apache tribes in Arizona. ...

So it's a new year: Let's revolt! (01/02/09)
What do you do at the beginning of a new year? If you're like most Americans, you think about making the old familiar "New Year's Resolution." One of the other writers at the Times-Gazette wrote her column about the New Year's Resolutions she makes for other people...

Honey, history, home, and horses (07/21/07)
There are certain people and events that pass through your life, leaving it a better place to revisit. I guess I am fortunate to say this has been a week of memories I will often wish to regather. On a particularly hot day, with the paper on the press, I gathered my camera, forgot my directions on a list, and headed out to see the world. ...

Destination: Jackrabbit (06/13/07)
I'm getting ready to go on a vacation for the first time in several years, and I'm really getting excited as the time draws near for my departure date. All of us here in the newsroom are taking time off within weeks of each other, so we are all sharing in each others excitement...

Was there life before TV? (08/21/06)
Some young people today may not realize that there actually was life before TV. I can barely recall those days of listening to the radio for entertainment, or reading a good book. Life sure changed when television invaded our lives. I remember back in the early 1950s living on the very edge of town in Grand Forks, N.D, when the Dezotell family became the first people on Sunset Drive to own a television...

The Chicks have a right to speak (08/02/06)
In the Sunday, July 30, Times-Gazette's column "Voice of the Public," the question was asked "Should the Dixie Chicks just shut up and sing?" The response of those questioned was overwhelmingly, "Yes!" One respondent said "I think they're terrible and ought to be ashamed of themselves."...

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Doug Dezotell