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I am easily confused. I don’t know if it’s an age thing or an IQ thing or just a “me” thing. But I read stuff or I see stuff and I get confused.
May 30, 2013 | 0 | 16 |
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I love people. I really do.
I understand that as a journalist I’m supposed to be cynical and mistrustful and expect the worst of my fellow travelers on this planet. But my experience has been that...
Apr 09, 2013 | 0 | 4 |
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I t was the sniffling, finally, that got to me.
Not the chin ups on the commuter train’s hand straps. Not the constant din of teenage cell phone chatter. Not even the almost overwhelming ar...
Mar 30, 2013 | 0 | 6 |
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My friend, Patricia, isn’t just happy. She’s joyful.
And with good reason. She is a faithful, believing Catholic from Argentina.
So the new pope of the Roman Catholic Church Р the former Card...
Mar 03, 2013 | 0 | 6 |
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Her name was Jill. I know this because that’s what it said on the name tag she wore as she checked my groceries at the supermarket. She was bubbly. Perky. Friendly. Upbeat.
Clearly she had to b...
Feb 02, 2013 | 0 | 4 |
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In Washington, D.C., a city consistently crammed with controversy, gossip, rumor and innuendo, the hubbub du jour is: Did she or didn’t she?
I’m referring, of course, to rampant speculation abo...
Jan 22, 2013 | 0 | 5 |
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I have a confession to make: In 57 years of life on this sick and diseased planet, I have never had a flu shot.
Not once.
There are a number of perfectly reasonable explanations for this. For...
Jan 06, 2013 | 0 | 5 |
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John was the toughest guy in the 9th grade С which wasn’t a bad thing if he liked you.
Thankfully, he liked me, and I was smart enough to figure out how to keep it that way. When he blasted m...
Dec 23, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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It wasn’t that the Bountiful Braves had a healthy disdain for their cross-town rivals, the Viewmont Vikings, and vice versa. It was that we hated each other.
Pure, white-hot hate, complete with...
Oct 01, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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By JOSEPH B. WALKER
It isn’t that Sam is unsociable. It’s just that he’s . . . well . . . you know . . . an engineer. Not the kind that drive trains. Those guys are social animals (who would...
Apr 02, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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I don’t get it. I mean, I was just driving along, enjoying a sudden burst of spring-like weather at winter’s end. When I glanced in the mirror and saw that teenage girl in the red sedan waving at m...
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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If you want to know the absolute fact of the matter, I never really was much of a singer.
Oh, I could carry a tune, all right. And I knew how to read music and follow a part – Mom saw to that. She ...
Jan 05, 2012 | 0 | 8 |
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I don’t mean to be morbid or anything, but what if the Mayan calendar is right?
Of course, I realize that there is considerable disagreement about whether or not the Mayan calendar actually predict...
Dec 22, 2011 | 0 | 8 |
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Bud wasn’t expecting presents for Christmas that year. It was the height of the Great Depression, and he was living in a boarding house thousands of miles away from home. There wasn’t money for gif...
Dec 15, 2011 | 0 | 7 |
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It’s a calm, bright, sunny day today. The kind of day that makes you forget that winter, with all of its blustery coldness, is fully upon us. The kind of day for which the words “crisp” and “clea...
Dec 10, 2011 | 0 | 4 |
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Mark’s eyes were closed, but there was intensity etched elsewhere on his face as he seemed to consciously struggle for each breath.
“Not a good time of year for this sort of thing,” I said to his d...
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 | 7 |
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The recent re-release of Disney’s “The Lion King” (3D! Blu-ray! Diamond Edition 2-disc set!) takes me back to the day Anita and I took our five children to see the animated film when it was release...
Nov 03, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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I’m a news and information kind of a guy – an AM radio junkie. So that’s usually what you’ll find me listening to during my daily commute to and from work.
News. Sports. Information.
But sometime...
Oct 27, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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I don’t know how it is at your house, but when our kids were growing up there were always two questions that invariably occupied an inordinate amount of time and attention this time every year: wh...
Oct 20, 2011 | 0 | 3 |
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It was the perfect evening for a walk in the early fall – warm, but not too warm. The sky was surpassingly clear, and a wondrously radiant harvest moon – or was it a hunter’s moon? I get those two...
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