At the age of 13, I thought my father, Richard Merle Weinshilboum, would live forever. This belief ran contrary to my aversion to illogical stances. I can’t recall a time when I considered the tooth fairy real; it was a silly little concept cooked up...
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I got a press release from Yolo County Animal Control recently that nearly made my eyes spin in their sockets. The subject line was “Two Pit Bulls Kill a Horse.” On June 1, Yolo County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at property on County Road 98B in...
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The year was 1993. I loaned a friend $500 so that she could afford to reserve a beach house on Cape Cod for a family vacation. I then found out that I needed a new car, which I could not afford. My mother received a...
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Do you hear it? It’s the do-not-date mantra that resonates within the Christian community. “The Birds and The Bees” is never a comfortable discussion between a parent and child. But it’s okay – the Christian literary giants have taken care of it. Just browse through...
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People here in California love weed. In the San Francisco Bay Area you can (and will) smell people smoking it as you’re walking down the street. This was the case before marijuana became legal here medicinally, and because we love our weed so much, we...
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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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