Immigration
An 11-year-old girl from Las Vegas delivered the ONLY speech I’ve watched this entire election cycle. I cried when I
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friends
Loss, great friends and dark humor
I decided to ignore social media today because I wasn’t in the mood to be inundated with Johnson and Johnson
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Putting my butt in the chair
I listened to a great (new to me and I’ll be back for more) podcast this morning. Authorstrator Mark Pett
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3-8, straight talk, and clean toilets
Years ago a therapist friend explained the concept of staying in the three to eight range on a scale of one
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Associated Press added an entry on suicide to the stylebook
Each year, the Associated Press releases an updated version of it’s Stylebook—a must-have for copyeditors everywhere— at least those of
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Flowers and Weeds: Both Grow in the Garden of Language
I write things down for three reasons: tell my friends a story, try and affect change and, simply put, clear
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Gratitude or Platitude?
Ten years ago a drunk first lieutenant named J. David Fleming introduced me to Rudyard Kipling’s Tommy after a long night
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A walk. Two cookies. And beer.
I received bad news this afternoon about a job I thought was a sure thing. In a city I really would love
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Just get on the plane, Gram. You’re not getting any younger.
I strong-armed my grandma over the phone this afternoon. I’m not sorry about it, either. Here’s how it went down. (I
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I wasn’t a Lego kid
I recently had the chance to build some with (ok, for, really, since he is only four and the set
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