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The Covid 19 Diaries
Fear is a powerful emotion. According to folk lore, fear can change your hair from black to pure white in a flash and it can…
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Thanksgiving
The typical way of celebrating Thanksgiving is not in the cards for this year due to the Covid 19 virus, but we can all do…
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Fields of Fear
This nation has been through a lot of traumatic events in its relatively short history. To name a few: colonialism, slavery, The Revolutionary War, The…
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Just Because You Can, It Doesn’t Mean You Should
DEFENSIVE PARKING – A RANT (NO APOLOGIES) I drive a mid-sized sedan, not too big, not so small. It looks good, drives well, gets great…
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And Let It Begin With Me*
Those of us who have lost a loved one due to a terminal illness may have witnessed the amazing support hospice workers provide to patients…
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I’m Becoming That Lady in the Grocery Store!
You know, you’ve seen her; the one running her cart down the aisle ignoring the one-way only stickers on the floor, muttering something under her…
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Suburban Morning Stroll
I live in a suburban area not too far from a major thoroughfare. Fortunately there are a large number of trees and a nearby creek.…
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Let's Get Political
(apologies to singer Olivia Newton Johns’ recording of PHYSICAL) I don’t much care for President Trump. I’ve had a hard time determining whether my dislike…
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Great Expectations and Grim Reality (WITH APOLOGIES TO CHARLES DICKENS)
As a school principal, I once had a conversation with a parent from Ukraine. His child was in my office because he had refused the…
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Super Heroes and The Rest of Us – The Goldilocks Rule
Popular culture is inundated with Super Heroes. D.C. comic re-writes abound. Most Super Heroes emerged as a result of some societal trauma. WWII brought Captain…
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THE THINGS PEOPLE SAY
If you are like me, you probably have things you say when you don’t know what to say. For example, I went through a phase…
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Definitions
My husband, William B. James, a talented thinker, teacher and writer, passed away on September 2, 2014. For the past five years, I’ve left his…
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