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Written by Jim Schindler
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Friday, May 18 2012 |
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Old age isn't for wimps. Just ask me!
Mother's FaultSince Mother Nature made everything taste so good and since we have to eat to live, I hate to say it, "But it's her fault I have a fat head!"
Series-usThere is an old Texan saying, which goes, "Don't mess with Texas." Ha! They're not that tough. It only took some Cardinals and a couple of Louisville Sluggers, to whip their butts and I'm series-us.
No More JunkAccording to the Washington Post, the U.S. Postal Service has lost over 8 billion d ...
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Written by Rev. James L. Snyder
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Friday, May 18 2012 |
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One of the great joys of getting older, and there is at least one joy involved in this grueling process, is discovering that you were right all the time. I try not to boast here because, well, that's just the kind of person I am. And, I'm not going to make a list of all of the things I was "right" about. No sense in boasting, but I just can't resist one.
Some of these things centered on my relationship with my mother. One advantage a mother has over her children is that sense of authority and b ...
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Written by Ronnie McBrayer
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Friday, May 18 2012 |
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Hans Christian Andersen first told the now familiar story of an Emperor who spent all of his kingdom's disposable wealth on being well dressed. He had a change of clothes for every hour of the day, and he spent more time in his dressing room than managing the affairs of his empire.
Egotistical as he was, the Emperor easily fell into the trap of two swindlers who claimed they could weave the most magnificent clothes imaginable. For a large sum of money, these two promised the Emperor that he wou ...
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Written by Kasey Butcher
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Friday, May 18 2012 |
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I'll admit that the only comic books I've ever read are a couple of Care Bears issues from the early 1990s. I know that there are a lot of passionate comic book fans out there, but also there's a lot of us who just go to the movies without the extensive background knowledge of the characters. That said, the basic premise of The Avengers struck me as a bit ridiculous, even for a comic book movie.
In the film, S.H.I.E.L.D., an international peace keeping agency is in the process of using a blue c ...
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Written by Marylou Habecker
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Friday, May 18 2012 |
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Irony is not lost on me. My husband Gene and I flew to Ethiopia to be part of a ministry team that delivered badly needed clothing and supplies to refugees, outcasts, and the infirmed. We arrived on a modern jet that had carried us across the ocean from America. When we disembarked the ultra-modern high-speed airplane and entered the towns, it was as though we had stepped back in time. We were surrounded by pushcarts, beggars, donkeys, women walking bent over with huge loads on their backs, dirt ...
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Written by Kasey Butcher
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Friday, May 04 2012 |
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Any good student of American literature could probably tell you that Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances. He was found on a park bench in Baltimore, Maryland, delirious, some say raving, even. A cause of death was never established and the paperwork has since been lost. Because Poe had problems with alcoholism and drugs, and probably because he already had a reputation as a troubled artist, people chalked his death up to hard living. The new film The Raven, offers a fictional acc ...
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