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Apr.20.2013
Mom relied on me to keep an eye on my brothers, who fought constantly. When she confiscated every toy that could be used as a weapon, they engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
When they were around 6 and 7, they pushed the living room furniture against the wall and spread a double bedsheet on the...
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Apr.18.2013
Everyday Heroes
Super heroes exist beyond the comic books and movies. Many of us consider sports figures, celebrities, or rescue workers in our list of heroes. But there are heroes amongst us…everyday people who go above and beyond to make this world a better place for others. We...
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Mar.28.2013
I thought of my parents as I dressed this morning, following a tortured trail of introspection.
All my introspection is tortured in the sense that nothing seems linear. Thoughts bounce around and connect and set other thoughts into motion.
My parents are with their latest companions and...
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Mar.22.2013
Josef K, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's The Trial was 30-year-old when he was arrested. My professor, who taught us the novel as part of the course “the Existentialist Novel” in the mid-1970s, told us that Kafka probably chose this age because 30 symbolized stability and respectability. “...
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Feb.27.2013
One quite serene day in February, my mother reflected a void of disappointment to me. That none of her 17 children were born in this short and quiet month. And, she reasoned it with passing by this month as somewhat barren, with no real occasion to celebrate a single birthday in our family...
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Jan.12.2013
Literature thrives on flawed characters. With the sinister Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, for example, Emily Bronte tapped into the shadowy aspect of masculinity.
C G Jung calls the latent masculine within women the Animus. Both in its light and dark aspects, this archetypal...
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Jan.08.2013
I am deeply heartbroken. The day after I posted this blog; http://redroom.com/member/catherine-nagle/blog/favored-against-all-odds our family received the news that another nephew, my Godchild, Carmen, had suddenly passed away in his sleep at 45-years-old. He also came from a...
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Dec.15.2012
Tragedy and Book Premise
Yesterday our country experienced yet another tragedy. Mothers will no longer raise their young daughters. Fathers will no longer parent their sweet sons. Teachers will return to their classroom with fewer students. ...
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Dec.05.2012
I heard two stories about miserable parents this weekend. Story one from someone I run into once or twice a year. As long as I’ve known him he has made three arduous annual trips across the country to spend a week with his mother. He lives in a remote area, so he has to drive most of a day...
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Dec.01.2012
I have a neice on my wife's side. In her early thirties, she lives in Florida with her mother and her stepfather. She also works for them, mostly for her mother, who has a business.
We're Facebook friends, where we can keep tabs on each other's life. While my posts tend to...
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