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We were talking about a neighbor who died this past year. Two days before dying, she confessed to a friend, "I'm afraid of death. I never really li...
The space between Christmas and New Years is a good time to take stock. It's a good time to think about how you want to grow next year. Most of us wan...
We had a house-full here in Gainesville. Our neighbors from Florida, the Shiraz family. Karen's parents. And then for dinner, Trevor, Ryan & the B...
Christmas, for all of its glory, can be hard on you sometimes. People who love each other but who have lived apart from one another for a year get tog...
Growing up, Christmas was sometimes a mixed blessing. No one wanted conflict, so we all would be on our best behavior. But along the way, if nothing e...
Why is it that Mondays are often the hardest day of the week? Maybe it's because you go from a place of rest to a place of activity, frustration and c...
Grace for atheists - Radical LivingI believe Christopher Hitchens, the reknowned atheist, and Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean despot, are somewhere in t...
Some people never seem to catch a break. Take Ann for instance. Life was already hard for Ann, a resid...
When we started the World Race in 2006, we sensed that we were onto something. As the three vans left Matamoros for Chiapas and ports south, who k...
The song "Tradition" in Fiddler on the Roof gives us the downside of doing the same traditional way. For a good modern example of that, talk to you...
