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This has been a fun week so far. Having the weather clear from cold and stormy to warmer and sunny opened the door to...

   When I think about the perils associated with winter travel, I think about my dad’s simple, but sound advice, “Stay off the roads.” Dad...

"SOMETIMES BIG PROBLEMS ARE BEST SOLVED WITH LOTS OF SMALL AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS." Ricardo Salinas Pliego   Do you really care about the loss of population and opportunities...

It’s a proven fact that as we grow older, parts of our body slow down and deteriorate. I also believe that as we grow...

  "THE SUPREME ART OF WAR IS TO SUBDUE THE ENEMY WITHOUT FIGHTING." Sun Tzu   There had been talking about the failing of the rural areas and...

  An election year will bring another cycle of bloat, the tortured patterns of illusion, bluff and fiction, and with fragments of truth scattered here and there....

"HONESTY IS THE FIRST CHAPTER IN THE BOOK OF WISDOM." Thomas Jefferson   Yes the truth can be ugly, but the denial of truth is even uglier....

Can a person ever have too much of a good thing? I believe this may be the case when you look at all the soft...

  It used to be every winter, especially in January, we would have at least a snowstorm or two. We would usually whether it through...

A lot of people are talking about a short story in The New Yorker right now. A short story. If you care at all about writing and literature and...