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The Best USC Card Stunt RFs of All Time

Published January 26, 2025 Blog Comments
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The Paradine Case Movie Caper: 1948 Rose Bowl USC vs Michigan My wife, Hilary, and I went to the 2019 Holiday Bowl at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium with fellow USC alumni, my uncle Stan Case, and his son Dave.  The USC Trojans were soundly beaten by the Iowa Hawkeyes, but everything else was great, including […]

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Captain Hiram Burt

Published October 16, 2024 Blog Comments
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Introduction and Dedication Hiram Burt was born on November 3, 1812, in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, to Enos Burt (1760-1822) and Hannah Haskins (1774-1843).  He was the second youngest of 10 siblings and had 5 brothers and four sisters.  His father and grandfather, Captain Jacob Haskins, were both soldiers with the Continental Army during the […]

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HANNAH GAUNTT

Published June 23, 2024 Blog Comments
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Introduction Hannah Gauntt is enshrined in the legend and lore of Newberry, South Carolina for the bravery she exhibited during the American Revolution.   A woman of “Amazonian” size and strength, Hannah exemplified the courage and toughness of the pioneer women who staked out a living in what was then the thinly settled hinterlands of the […]

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ANTIWAR PROTESTS-54 YEARS AGO

Published April 29, 2024 Blog Comments
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The Vietnam War is a bad memory that has faded over time for many of us who were young adults when the conflict was raging in a full-throated roar. By 1968, 500,000 American soldiers were stationed in Vietnam.   50,000 had been killed in action.  Multiples more wounded in body and mind. Martin Luther King was […]

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FOR THE VERNONS

Published March 21, 2024 Blog Comments
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Introduction Many wouldn’t know the middle name of singer-songwriter-Music Hall-of-Famer- James Taylor is Vernon.   I discovered this gem several years ago as I was pulling together a story of my family’s mind-bending connections with James and his music—a story I’m positive he has never seen. I was particularly pleased with this rather obscure fact because […]

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VERNON FAMILY TREE

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[Note:   This is far from a complete Vernon Family Tree.  It tracks the direct lineage to the Taylor siblings.  In the author’s experience, the reliability of the accuracy of a family tree wanes after the 5th generation.  However, in this case, based on research of similar family trees on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.com, there is more […]

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FOR THE STUMBLERS

Published January 24, 2024 Blog Comments
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Greetings- I hope 2024 is off to a good start.  For Christmas I got some new, beautiful titanium pieces for my neck.  I also traded in some that weren’t playing nice with my “born-with” parts. It’s like a strange necklace you can’t see.   Recovery is intentionally slow the first couple of months, but we’re getting […]

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THE PROGRAM REPRISED

Published December 9, 2023 Blog Comments
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Well, here’s another head-scratcher-goosebumper for you.  In December of 2011, Courtney Day, a friend of Jimmy’s from Torrey Pines High School, reached out to me through Write Me Something Beautiful with an amazing story involving her and her new roommate, JJ, in Los Angeles.   The depth of the synchronicity required for these two women, in […]

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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS ARCOIRIS

Published November 4, 2023 Blog Comments
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November 1 (11 1), was the first day of Dia De Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.  They coincide with the Catholic holidays of All Saints Day and All Souls Day on November 2.  As Hilary shared in a post on her food blog, Dia De Los Muertos is not some Steven King horror […]

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RUN, FORREST, RUN

Published October 17, 2023 Blog Comments
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The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself, not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths. What am I? Am I the bulb that […]

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Author Bios

Write Me Something Beautiful Authors - Casey and Jimmy Gauntt

Casey Gauntt

is a retired attorney and former senior executive of a major San Diego real estate company. He lives in Solana Beach, California, with his wife, Hilary. Casey grew up in Itasca, Illinois, graduated Lake Park High School in 1968, and received B.S., JD and MBA degrees from the University of Southern California.

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Jimmy Gauntt

was born and raised in Solana Beach and graduated from Torrey Pines High School in 2002.   A prestigious Trustee Scholar at the University of Southern California, he majored in English and Spanish. He authored six plays, five screenplays, and a multitude of poems and short stories. Beginning in 2010, the USC English Department annually bestows the Jimmy Gauntt Memorial Award—aka “The Jimmy”—to the top graduates in English.  Jimmy passed over to the other side in 2008 at age 24.

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