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Bless your mother

My 71 year-old Mom is traveling with my Dad to Afghanistan for a month-long mission to help the Afghans. I aspire to be a warrior at her age like she ...

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Books I'm reading

I've got a pile of books on my night stand. It is growing into an unwieldy tower. Here are some: Meditations from the Road by M. Scott Peck C...

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Starting a new journal

It’s time for a new journal. Fortuitously, the pages on the ’05 journal ended just as the year itself did. Rarely is life so tidy. Somewhere in th...

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Absence confirms value

My children have emptied the nest and are back for Christmas. There is more laughter in our house than ever before. Karen and I just pushed the pau...