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Aug.11.2012
August 11
I KNOW
I know more than I understand. I know more than I let on. I know right from wrong, left from right, uphill from down. I know you have my best interest at heart. I know I often don’t. I know it hurts when I fall but holding...
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Jul.27.2012
The internet can be a mean and vapid place, fuelled by mean and vapid people. But it also can offer vast arrays of wisdom wealth. I touch these surfaces every day in my research and my interests. And straying to those funny videos. So much is there and now, there is the promise of more. There...
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Jul.04.2012
July 4
RENTING JOY
I cannot buy happiness. No matter how much money I spend, how hard I work, I can never pay bliss off on lay away. The angles of escape for glee are phenomenal. I see runaway emotions and must concede ownership. When...
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Jul.01.2012
What Was Her Secret?
How did my mother manage to raise a huge family and gain so much love and respect from all of us telling us endless stories of her miraculous life, and I remember all of them. None of her wisdom...
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Jun.08.2012
Here's a taste of my new novel Mud Hut Man.
There was an old man lived in a hut under the south wall. His name was Hester and he was really old, perhaps as old as sixty. It was rumored that he’d once lived inside the Castle walls. It was probably a load of old bollocks but I decided to go and...
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May.22.2012
If you are fortunate enough to find a Kafka fanatic sitting in the seat next to you on a plane (and are, of course, yourself a Kafka fanatic) you have a shortcut to friendship and understanding. Perhaps even acceptance. And the flight will be enhanced.
This article shows that the same can happen...
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Apr.18.2012
And the change-over took a month. Well, there were those centuries in there of course, but from the point the Encyclopaedia Britannica realized its printed days were over, it took a month to make it available on-line. That's a lot of knowledge right there.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica stopped...
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Apr.11.2012
Arizona lawmakers passed a bill defining life as beginning two week before conception.
John Celock at HuffPost puts it nicely:
"A sentence in the bill defines gestational age as "calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman," which would move the beginning of a...
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Apr.04.2012
Four days is good enough. The girls went on a short trip and I have the silence and comfort of home with lots of space all to myself.
Perfect timing! Classes have ended giving me time to wake up a little later and lounge around without having to rush out to get my day started.
We’re on...
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Mar.21.2012
Although I feel that a police officer has, perhaps, the most thankless job on the planet, I must say that teachers too seem to be taken very much for granted. The potential "strike" in our area recently had me thinking about this. We constantly hear about "cutbacks" in...
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