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The Man With the Bag / The ICE Man Cometh
Eating chocolate cake in a bag. John Lennon I have an interesting background. Mom and Dad were born in the coal-mining area of Pennsylvania. Dad’s parents emigrated from Poland and Mom’s grandparents came from Poland (grandfather) and Czechoslovakia (grandmother). I was born and raised in Arizona and became an amalgamation of the American Southwest, Eastern Continue reading
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Shine a Light
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens I am not a Christian and despite that fact that I regularly attend Sunday services at a Unitarian church, I am not anything in particular. I have a strong sense of spirituality and attempt to practice a life Continue reading
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What Have You Done?
Each time a man or woman stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the Continue reading
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Charles Schultz, Charlie Brown, and Me
Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love. Charles Schultz Linda, our friends Sheila and Jeff, and I recently attended The Life and Art of Charles M. Schultz at the Minnesota History Center. Having been a lifelong fan of Charlie Brown and Peanuts, it was a very moving experience. From a very early Continue reading
Can You Hear Me Now 