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You’d think someone who has faced death so many times would be at peace with the reality of it by now. Nope. I’m even more afraid of dying than ever, probably because I have a child to love and care for now. I never expected...
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I’m really happy to be a part of iPinion Syndicate. I think it has to do with luck. I’ve always been lucky at just about everything I’ve ever done except for one thing. I was not a lucky soldier, but that’s a different story. I’m...
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Life should be a lot more like soccer. If you are on Argentina’s team and you lose an intra-squad match, the winners get to kick a soccer ball at the loser side’s butts. I like that. I know these are professional soccer players and they...
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If you read my griping and grouching about the neighborhood cats terrorizing my beloved back yard blue jays, as well as turning my garden into a litter box and dousing my front porch with the putrid stench of cat urine, you might deduce that I...
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Is it possible? Can anyone have too many books? Yes, if those books are piling up on chairs and nightstands unread, and you don’t know where your favorites are and you’re plumb out of bookcases or wall space to hold them all. And I’m saying...
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“This is not about attacking the church. This is about taking a stand for what is right.” – Linda Stay, former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and mother of a gay son who was married to his life partner...
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I don’t know if you could call it a reoccurring dream or not. The circumstances are always slightly different — different people and different reasons for being there. But all these dreams have one paralyzing similarity: a tsunami. There’s no stop-drop-and-roll to a tsunami. No...
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Everyone has that defining piece of information about themselves that gives insight into “who” they are and what their guts are made of. For some, it’s a traumatic childhood full of abuse; for others it’s a struggle with alcoholism, and for me, it’s my heart....
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Penumbra is the magical moment when night moves into day like fairy dust and snow flurries. It is that time when every creeping thing and every resting thing waxes with pregnant light. Even schoolteachers have their own penumbra. For me, it is today. Today, the...
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