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To steal a word that so many politicians are already overusing: We’re living in unprecedented times. As this is written,…
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As I sit to type out this year’s Thanksgiving entry it occurs to me that I would never have considered…
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As with so many of the things that inspire me to start thinking around a topic, something popped up in…
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Nearly every day of my life I hear someone say, “Karma’s a bitch,” or, “Watch what you do; you don’t…
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Yesterday evening, in a local cigar shop, there was a conversation held about belief in God. I use the capital…
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“Only a Sith deals in such absolutes.” Obi-Wan Kenobi. I couldn’t help myself. I had to open with that. The…
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There are many different kinds of energy, and that’s not even getting into the existential discussion about Einstein’s theory and…
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This is always a good conversation starter: Do you believe in ghosts? The answers vary from, “Nope. They don’t exist,”…
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Almost daily you can hear someone complain about their life, their day, some part of their job or something else.…
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Someone once said that there are two truly important days in our life: the day we are born and the…
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