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May.04.2013
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Apr.18.2013
I've been debating if I should keep writing about the Dome closing. What happened in Boston is when words fail. You have to brace yourself for that train of blame, anger, martyrs to come down the road and pray that it doesn't stop at your station. The eternal critic says "You dumb chick. A bomb...
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Apr.17.2013
I admit, my first thought was not one of sympathy, but “Hope it is not a Muslim” on hearing about the bomb blasts.
Is she dead? Injured? Her limbs blown off? I will never know. I knew her only as a pseudonym. She often spoke about training for the marathon. She was, from all accounts,...
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Apr.04.2013
A riveting and poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home, The Paradise Guest House by New York Times best selling author of French Lessons makes sense of life after suffering a tragedy.
The spectrum of colors that line the...
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Feb.23.2013
by Christopher Cudworth
The news about concussions is everywhere in pro sports. Retired football players are suing the NFL for failing to protect their noggins, while active players are taking concussions far more seriously. America’s favored game of football may be at risk all the way from youth...
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Dec.30.2012
I've been dealing with a few issues at home. I'm talking about the printer, home computer network - how many of us thought we'd say that forty years ago - and the home furnace.
My printer issue ended up resolved through the use of a reboot option. Reboot and reset are sort of the...
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Dec.16.2012
Back in 2008, which seems like a couple decades ago in today’s 24-hour news cycle, I published an article titled America’s Gun Addiction on Yahoo!, then waited for the requisite hateful commentary of gun addicts calling me “naïve” and other such nonsense I never proposed to take away their handguns...
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Dec.14.2012
Do we know the facts? Do we really need to? The words “children shot and killed” are more than enough. Is there a why? Can there ever be? I will repost this, the shooting of another child, not two years ago, evidence that those in American who abide by the...
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Dec.05.2012
Before finishing a novel concerning terrorists travelling through Mexico to cause mayhem in America, I explored a route that they might take. Here’s the excursion:
We depart Tucson in a van at dawn—six tourists plus our Spanish-speaking, Norte Americano driver-guide and me, the...
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Nov.06.2012
“Thank you for flying.”The silver-haired, Mt. Rushmore-profiled airplane captain walked among the few dozen of us in the SFO departure lounge. It was one week after 9/11. The world was still numb from the horror. After days of no flights at all, planes were starting to move, but...
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