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Walk With Me

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Walk With Me

Whenever someone comes up to me and says, “Walk with me,” two experiences come to mind. The first is when my tenth grade math teacher led me out into the hallway and told me that my spontaneous comments during class, while quite hilarious, made it feel like I had more control over the classroom than […]

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Reset and Laugh

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Reset and Laugh

Since we are knee-deep in politics these days, considering that the contested, or more accurately detested, presidential election is just around the corner, I think we all need to take a breath, reset, and laugh just a bit more. A few weeks ago, my wife and I were heading to Boston and then onto New […]

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Fear Not

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Fear Not

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” —Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sometimes, I think we should update President Roosevelt’s quote to say, “The only thing we have to fear is our messed up minds!” For example… A few days ago, I was lost in a daydream. Has this every happened to you? You’re […]

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I Have a Lot on My Mind

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I Have a Lot on My Mind

My mind functions like a pile of garbage during a windstorm. One thought after another gets dumped onto the pile until there is a mountain of unnecessary, discarded trash. Then, a gust of wind comes along and the thoughts are stirred up into a whirlwind as I chase each one all over the heap. This […]

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It’s All I Can See

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It’s All I Can See

Does this sound familiar? It’s the Saturday of your high school prom. You had a crush on another student for several months and a few weeks before the prom, you got up the nerve to ask them to go with you—and they said yes. You rented a tuxedo or bought a dress, made dinner reservations, […]

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Happy New Year…uh…Day

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Happy New Year…uh…Day

It’s that time of year again. Even if you haven’t put away the decorations, I suspect you have spent the past few weeks putting away enough food and drink for the both of us. And I’m right there with you. Now, it’s time to get back to work, back to school, and back to the […]

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Humor, Take Me Away

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Humor, Take Me Away

An old television commercial showed a woman describing the many demands in her life and when she finally got to her breaking point, she looked towards the heavens and said, “Calgon, take me away.”  She was immediately transported to an overly sudsy bathtub and relieved of all the stress in her life. I’m not sure […]

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