The Last Winter of Innocence Bernadette Thompson Martin

By mid-morning, the glorious clear blue sky had vanished. Ominous gray clouds now hung low as the onset of the predicted snowstorm advanced. This was to be a significant event, and severe weather alerts had been issued. In anticipation of the imminent onslaught, my husband and I rushed around the farm to make the necessary [...]

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Art Detectives Barbara Garro

Art Buyers Must Be Art Detectives to Buy Authentic - Artist/Teacher Barbara Garro says. Seeing as an Art Detective can be amazingly rewarding for perfectionists and great conversation for everyone. How many times have you looked at a painting and felt something seemed not quite right. Of course, not being an artist, you may have trouble [...]

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Flying with Santa Barbara Garro

I wish you all a Merry Christmas or Happy Whatever You Celebrate and for 2012, I share my secret to being a happy person–I associate with happy people! Honestly, it is that simple– Back in 1982 during my first year of clowning I did birthday parties, taught clowning at ———— Community College, and invented a [...]

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Bridgestone To The Rescue! Michael Douglas Bosc

As is the way of our life, nothing runs smooth or like clockwork, and today was no exception.  Every day this week I have been working on finishing the up-date to our Solar system. Everything had been going to plan, except I had run out of battery cable. Now this is a heavy-duty cable and [...]

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The End is Nigh! Michael Douglas Bosc

Will the 99% bring down capitalism? Protests on Wall Street and across America highlight the inequalities of life in a materialistic and financially centred society.  Millionaires are common place, whilst Billionaires abound in this new world of the super rich. Protesters in London only managed to close St Paul’s cathedral, not the Bank of England [...]

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Options, Should You Take Them? Jack Eason

Have you ever thought how often taking the wrong option can ruin your life? My father did till his dying day. In 1947 he had all but completed the long correspondence process by letter of obtaining what he saw as his dream job as the manager of a fruit farm in the highlands of Ethiopia, [...]

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I Got Caught Cheating! Kimberly Matthews-Hooker

I hate cheating. I hate songs about cheaters. – Secret Lovers, As We Lay, any song that has to do with someone indulging in sexual pleasures with someone they ain’t got no business laying up with just makes me shake my head in disgust (although I’ll admit that musically, Me and Mrs. Jones is a [...]

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Getting Married Biolaephesus

In my tribe, getting married in the old days followed a set pattern designed only to bring the right persons to each other and reduce as they as they a mismatch or unhappiness as divorce was rarely considered unless you were accused of being a witch and made to confess, not an easy option I [...]

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The Cig Paula Shene

This year, from Mother’s Day to Father’s Day, life in my household has been more dramatic than normal. It is usually just a circus with one clown or the other taking center stage but this period of time, all three rings were performing without a curtain call or so it seemed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many years ago, [...]

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Fill in Your Blank (2) Paula Shene

Several weeks ago, we removed the carpeting from our main floor because the two new old dogs {one 10 years and the other close to 16} have a propensity to relieve themselves in, not out doors, if one is not super fast in opening the door. No amount of scolding stopped the puddles; removing the [...]

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Why Do People Get Married? patbertram

Karen opened a store about the same time she started going out with Max. That year, she lost so much money and he made so much money they married at the end of December to enable him to save a bundle on taxes, which they split fifty-fifty. Ah! The sweet romance of tax deductions! Decades [...]

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Fill In Your Blank (1) Paula Shene

The path of destruction ends in tragedy if not recognized, faced, and fought. This is true with battles of illness. It is said, “If you have not health, you have nothing.” I am sure many of you can say, “I disagree.” The answer is money. No, it’s love. Or, it’s children, animals, – please fill [...]

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