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Continue reading →: Out of Excuses
[su_note note_color=”#fcfcef”]This was an essay I submitted to Writing Excuses -a wonderful podcast for writers. It was a chance to win a spot on a cruise and I thought I’d try my luck. Well, no luck but a worthy person did win. I found it in a backup folder and…
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Continue reading →: GIGO & Your Brain
I’m not sure if it was binge-watching season 4 of Stranger Things but I found myself thinking about the craziness of the world again and decided to pen a few more words. I am convinced that we are victims of our own brains. This is something I touched on here…
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Continue reading →: Foods for Freshwater Aquarium Fish
I have had aquariums of one sort or another most of my life. There is something about that encapsulated ecosystem with plants, fish, shrimp and other critters swimming, tunneling or crawling about that captivates me. I currently have a 75 gallon aquarium with a variety of critters and figured I’d…
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Continue reading →: The Battle Nobody Wins
Image Credit: Wallpaper Cave If you think what I’m about to say is about you, it isn’t. I am speaking in general terms about the craziness in the world as I see it. We live in a time where posting an opinion on social media easily draws the ire of…
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Continue reading →: How We Think
Despite what we think, we don’t usually react to the world around us. The ‘real world’. We react to the unique model of the world we have in our heads. Our experiences help build that model, as do any ideas and dogmas we adopt. We program our brains and then…
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Continue reading →: Healthy Foods, Cancer & Immunity Boosting
[su_spacer size=”10″] [su_note note_color=”#EEEEF2″] About this post: I have recently been diagnosed with cancer and have just begun the process of it all. Still scheduling scans, hormone therapy, radiation and trying to prepare my wife as best I can in case things don’t go well. This page is me thinking…
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Continue reading →: “We Had a Delightful Crew in the Paddy Wagon” – The Russian Reader
Liudmila Vasilyeva is detained at an anti-war February 24 at Gostiny Dvor. Her placard reads, “No war, please” Photo: Artyom Leshko/Novaya Gazeta We met with Liudmila Nikolaevna Vasilyeva in between demonstrations. On February 24 she—a survivor of the WWII-era Siege of Leningrad and a Soviet veteran of labor—was arrested outside…
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Continue reading →: Well that’s a bummer…
It’s something we all know is coming but not usually when or how. Despite that we aren’t always ready for the words. Today I found out I have prostate cancer. I recognized it was a possibility when my PSA numbers jumped from my previous routine test, and then the follow…
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