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Haunted, Hounded, or Hunted?
Yard art has exploded with witches, ghosts, skeletons, gravestones, spiders’ webs, monsters, bats, and the like. Horror movie promotions...
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Sep 10, 20252 min read


Bent, But in Which Way?
Many people spend gobs of energy and globs of resources and blobs of time trying to get in shape or stay in shape or rearrange the shape...
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Aug 21, 20252 min read


Searching for the Source
Most if not all of us like to figure things out. Put the pieces of the puzzle together. Trace the logical path life should travel. Craft...
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Aug 14, 20252 min read


Heimlich Maneuvers for the Heart
It’s a response that can save an endangered person’s life. It’s a technique well worth learning. It’s a relatively simple action that...
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Jul 30, 20252 min read


Who Cares for the Baby Bears?
Years ago when I was younger and spent more time hanging out with teenagers, I rustled up a bunch of them and hauled them to a ski resort...
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Jul 24, 20252 min read


Backfire or Boomerang?
If we’ve been around at least a decade or so on this good earth, we know what it’s like to have our plans unravel and our projects fall...
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Jul 10, 20252 min read


Where's the Rub?
Okay, let’s play for a bit, shall we? We all know what or who rubs us the wrong way, don’t we? We are well aware of the friction we feel...
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Jul 2, 20252 min read


Space Exploration
Perhaps it is so as it was scripted for the opening of the iconic television series Star Trek … that space is the final frontier. This...
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Jun 18, 20252 min read


In a Different Light
It doesn’t happen all that often but when it does, it’s an expansive experience. Sure, sometimes we’d prefer not to expand… or to be...
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Jun 11, 20252 min read


Making Waves
Summer is approaching and for many of us that might bring to mind thoughts of water. And not just drinking more water in the heat of the...
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May 28, 20252 min read


Wailing Within
A six-year-old, separated from the adult who once held him in tow but who veered down a different aisle in the wide and wild world of...
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May 21, 20252 min read


Clear as Mud
Irony. Don’t you love it? Humor with a bite. So it is with the expression “clear as mud.” Words that don’t logically fit together. We all...
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May 14, 20252 min read


Joint Pain
Knees. Wrists. Shoulders. Hips. All those places in our bodies that are prone to slip and slide and groan and grind. Potential...
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May 7, 20252 min read


Questions That Haunt Us
The year was 1967. Television watchers were tuning into the Ed Sullivan Show, among other vintage favorites. During his tenure on air...
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May 1, 20252 min read


To Keep or Break the Silence?
A person dies. Perhaps death came suddenly. A tragedy. The spouse, family members are grieving, in shock. The news ripples through the...
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Apr 17, 20252 min read


Downward Mobility
Who comes up with this stuff? How did it get to be accepted into our everyday language? And when did we decide it is something to be...
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Apr 9, 20252 min read


What's Better Than a New Do?
Spring is sprouting signs of new life all around us! We’re seeing flowers and shrubs popping open and recently birthed calves wobbling...
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Apr 2, 20252 min read


What Goes On...
…isn’t always easy to get off. Ok, not clothing. Not even grease, grit, or grime. Instead, all that emotional stuff that gets piled onto...
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Mar 26, 20252 min read


Living Out of Whack
We receive a Christmas card or a birthday gift from someone who appreciates us. That person wasn’t on our Christmas card list or on our...
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Mar 19, 20252 min read


Breaking Up: Hard or Not?
In days gone by, we couldn’t begin count on one hand the number of times we’d be on a mobile phone hearing the comment from the other...
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Mar 12, 20252 min read
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