Connecting the Dots
Connecting the Dots
Recently, I discovered one of the benefits of growing old...beyond mere longevity. Age has forced me to
think
more intensely. In the past year, I have traveled to Scotland to research the Scottish independence
movement and
then traveled to Myanmar/Burma to study the human rights efforts in that country. I loved the trip to
Scotland.
It was nice to return to where I did post-graduate studies 45-years ago, however the trip to Myanmar
changed my
life. I am a different person than I was before spending a month in Myanmar.
When I returned to the States, I had a routine appointment with my cardiologist, Dr. Marchand. My heart
issues
are fine, but I asked him why I was so driven. He paused for a moment and then said, "You have seen the
light."
In the past four months, I have spent a great deal of time writing about seeing the light and attempting
to
flesh out the next question. Why? Why have I seen the light? In the process, I have looked back on
7-decades of
events in my life. Steve Jobs calls these events, dots. I have danced with
death a
couple times, in which I learned that I was finite. I have become more left of center than I was even
back in
the 60s during the civil rights movement. I think about the legacy that I will leave the world. I want
to use my
experiences in my life to help those who are younger to enjoy life. And the list goes on....
Then it dawned on me. That is precisely what Steve Jobs said was the reason for my seeing the light...I
was
connecting the dots. This is part of his commencement speech at Stanford.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So
you have to
trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something --
your gut,
destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the
difference in
my life.
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Who I am today is based upon having the wondrous vantage point of connecting many dots over the years.
The
connecting of those dots as I look back reveals a wondrous revelation of seeing the light...a light like
I never
imagined as I was experiencing the dots. As the events or dots occur, that is not the time that one can
see the
meaning of the dots. Nevertheless, hindsight is.
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Learning Is Three-Dimensional… But It Is Discovered On the Road |
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Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams |
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Where’s the Proof?The New Me |
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Finding ImmortalityGilgamesh and Ti Ti |
01/22/21 |
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There are Facts…And There are Fake Facts. |
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The Gilgamesh EpicThen and Now |
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The Answer to the Question…What’s It All About, Alfie? |
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Purposeful LivesOn Steroids |
01/13/21 |
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Seeing Ourselves as Others See UsIn This Case, Ti Ti Seeing Herself |
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Achilles’ HeelThen and Now |
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Emails Past and PresentA Reflection Upon Our World |
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Modafinil and Lao TzuBenefit My Pooh Dog |
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Discerning the TruthA Means to Live Life |
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It Was Four Years AgoAnd What a Difference Four Years Makes |
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The Importance of the Sound of Music…According to Nietzsche and Me |
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The Giving and GettingBoth Parties Benefit |
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye…Ti Ti Is Starting College Today! |
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Bunker Time A Prediction |
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The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet |
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Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity |
10/07/20 |
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My Two Worlds…Affect My Life |
10/05/20 |
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Bad KarmaSticks to People |
10/02/20 |
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This is Success in the MakingYou Heard It First from PaPa Al |
09/30/20 |
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Jainism or the JusticeThe Place of Women in the World |
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This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder |
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From Then to NowWhat a Difference Seven Years Has Made |
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Masks Matter…To Some |
09/16/20 |
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Two PoemsBy Two Ladies |
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I Live in Two Worlds:One in the States and One in Myanmar |
09/07/20 |
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Coming Home to RoostKierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family |
09/04/20 |
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There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming |
08/07/20 |
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A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger |
07/31/20 |
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Egoism vs AltruismThere is a Better Way |
07/27/20 |
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Ti TiMy Granddaughter and Poet Laurate |
07/24/20 |
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"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.”
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07/20/20 |
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The Brighter Side of My LifeDue to a Serendipitous Moment |
07/15/20 |
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A Tribute to SnowMy Granddaughter in Myanmar |
07/08/20 |
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A Tribute to Ti Ti The Young Lady |
07/06/20 |
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Another of Santayana’s Teaching Moment Maybe We Will Learn
This Time |
06/24/20 |
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The Long-Neck WomenA Tradition in Myanmar |
06/24/20 |
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An Open-Letter to the WorldTimes They Are
a-Changin' |
06/05/20 |
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Living in the New NormalOur New World Order |
05/29/20 |
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It Is All About FamilyAnd Who Makes Up Our Family
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05/20/20 |
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Our Reason for BeingDiscover It |
05/18/20 |
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The Elephant RideOver the Alps of Myanmar |
05/11/20 |
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Ballooning Over BaganWith My Family |
05/06/20 |
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Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady |
04/29/20 |
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Taung Kwe PagodaAn Out of the World Location |
04/27/20 |
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Why I Love Inle LakeTwo Reasons |
04/22/20 |
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The Week That WasDance on with Determination |
04/20/20 |
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“I Could Stand in the Middle of Fifth Avenue….”You Are
Standing on Main
Streets in America and Shooting |
04/13/20 |
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The Brighter Side of LifeSomewhat Brighter |
04/10/20 |
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Plague DoctorThen and Now |
04/06/20 |
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Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five
Commandments
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03/25/20 |
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Let’s Make a DealThanks to Modafinil |
03/23/20 |
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A Teaching MomentFor Today and the Future |
03/18/20 |
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We Face Two PandemicsBoth Need Immediate Attention
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03/11/20 |
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Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly |
03/09/20 |
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Holy TerrorMy Nom De Guerre |
03/04/20 |
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“Let’s Get Going.”An Important Lesson of Life (FLASH:
The lost video
sound is back) |
03/02/20 |
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Mr. ChipsAn Updated Version |
02/26/20 |
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Angry Old MenThere is an Alternative |
02/21/20 |
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What Drives MeBack Then and Now |
02/19/20 |
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GingerPart 3 of a 4 Part Series |
02/05/20 |
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The Republican TrinitySessions, Bolton, and Roberts
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01/31/20 |
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The Teak BridgePart 2 of a 4 Parts Series |
01/29/20 |
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Reflections on My LifeIn My Twilight Years |
01/27/20 |
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A Present-Day ParableWhich Can Be Understood |
01/24/20 |
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It Is All About the Song…In the Days of Auld Lang
Syne
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01/20/20 |
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My Swan SongAnd My Family’s Swan Song |
01/17/20 |
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Theseus and Me
A Ball of String or Modafinil
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10/02/19
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Icarus and Trump
On Flying Too Low
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09/30/19
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Autotelic
Vincent, Me, and Modafinil
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09/27/19
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Vaping vs Guns
That is the Question
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09/23/19
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Perspective
What You See Is What You Get.
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09/20/19
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Plagiarism
Sharpie-Gate
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09/11/19
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Modafinil—
The Pill that Stopped My Meandering
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09/04/19
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Troll’s Tongue
Or Troll’s Tail
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09/02/19
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My Yearning for Faraway
Places…
That I’ve Never Been or Will See Again
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08/26/19
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My Wonder Drug
Modafinil
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08/23/19
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A Teaching Moment
“Catch the Trade Winds in Your Sails”
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08/21/19
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Either/Or…Part 2
I Can Live with a Dent
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08/19/19
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Trump and White
Supremacy
The Torch Has Been Passed to a New Generation
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08/09/19
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My Next
Adventure:
The Die is Cast
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08/02/19
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Jack's 9th Birthday
Gifts from Famous People
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07/31/19
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Owen’s 7th Birthday
Gifts from Famous People
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07/29/19
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Ginger, King
of the
Mountain
Taught Me a Lesson
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07/24/19
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Quisling Then and
Now
Repeating History
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07/22/19
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Ginger’s Vet
My Shrink
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07/19/19
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The Dog Days of
Summer
Without Air Conditioning
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07/17/19
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And the Winner Is….
Who Will Get the Nobel Prize for Peace?
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07/15/19
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Leo Tolstoy
What He Learned About Communication
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07/01/19
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Music as a Unifying Force
Also for Oneself
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06/28/19
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My Family Escaped
From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar
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06/21/19
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Family
Who Is Your Family?
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06/17/19
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Pick Your Mentors
But Be Careful About Who and Why
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06/14/19
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A Whiter Shade of Pale
What’s It All About?
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06/12/19
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“Go Fly a Kite!”
Franklin Did
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06/10/19
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Nietzsche and Ginger
Übermensch or ÜberGinger
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05/27/19
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The Climate Change Debate
Evolved from the Scopes Monkey Trial
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05/24/19
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Prometheus, Galileo, and Nietzsche
Verses Zeus, God, and Nihilism
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05/22/19
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Carl Sagan
The World Learned Much from Him
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05/06/19
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Wanderlust
Travel with No Regret
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05/01/19
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The Moving Finger Writes
And the Writings Haunt Me
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04/26/19
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Several Things That I Need in Life
And That’s When I Need You
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04/24/19
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern
Contacting Clarence Page
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04/12/19
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern
Contacting Rod Stewart
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04/10/19
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Lord of the Dance
From Three Perspectives
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04/05/19
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Scared!
Seen as a Teaching Moment
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04/08/19
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Coffin Bridge…
Build What You Need
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04/01/19
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Vocation of An Old Man…
Being a Bridge Builder
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03/29/19
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I Will Rage, Rage…
On Behalf of 1250 Students and One Celestial Comet
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03/25/19
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Three Songs Morphed Together
Creating Meaning in Life
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03/22/19
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The Purpose of the Universe
Or My Window on the World
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03/20/19
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Ti Ti…
A Remarkable Young Lady
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03/18/19
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Dealing with the Reaper
By Coming Alive and Living
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03/13/19
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Dreaming….
About My Moment in Time
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03/11/19
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Going Belly-Up
Whales and People
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03/08/19
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One Moment in Time
Carpe Diem
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03/04/19
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Before Trump’s America
And After Trump’s America
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03/01/19
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NiC and Narcissus
There Is a Better Alternative.
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02/27/19
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Inferiority Complex
Womb Envy vs. Penis Envy
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02/25/19
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Tintern Abbey
Viewed by Wordsworth and Turner
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02/18/19
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My Fistful of Meā Culpā…
To Our President
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02/15/19
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I Made a Mistake…
Imagine That
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02/13/19
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This Essay Is About Morphing
Pelosi, Donald the Dumb, Pausch, Gandhi, and Me
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02/11/19
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Something to Dream About
While Waiting for the IRS’s Approval
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02/08/19
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The Value of Pain
Can Produce Ultimate Bliss
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02/04/19
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A Very Brief History of Sexism in Science
It All Started with a Blinking Neutron Star
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02/01/19
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This Essay Addresses Alfie
What’s It All About?
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01/28/19
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Hauntings from Deep Space….
From the Tabby’s Star
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01/21/19
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Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse
It Is a Good Sign for Me
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01/18/19
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The Wall Issue
The True Value of a Wall
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01/14/19
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Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice
To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It.
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01/11/19
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Looking at Life
From Both Sides Now
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1/7/19
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A New Year’s Eve
With a New Resolution for the Coming Year
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12/31/18
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Christmas Gifts for Owen
From People Around the World
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12/28/18
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Christmas Gifts for Jack
From People Around the World
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12/26/18
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Krampus, the Bad Santa…
Is Coming to Get You
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12/21/18
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What Drives Me…
My Himalayan Salt Lamps
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12/19/18
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It’s All About Family
I Agree with John Lewis |
12/17/18
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Mini-Me and Dr. Evil…
Then and Now
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12/14/18
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The Magnificent Seven…
My Dream Team
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12/07/18
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What’s It Like Being a Neanderthal?
Most of Us Have Some Neanderthal DNA
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12/03/18
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From Mud
To Macadam
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11/30/18
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"Look at Me
I Am Old but I’m Happy" |
11/14/18
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Building a Log Cabin
You Are Really Smart; I’ll Tell My Brother |
11/12/18
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On Land and Sea
We Are All Greeks |
11/05/18
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Lack of Leadership
In Turbulent Times |
11/02/18
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Serendipitous Moments in My Life
And They Are Haunting Me |
10/31/18
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Donald the Dumb
Should Have Taken Art History
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10/26/18
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Keep Calm
And Things Seem to Work Out
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10/24/18
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On Making Your Mark
And Leaving It
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10/22/18
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Sexism in Society
Especially in Washington
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10/05/18
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Rhythm of My Heart
Here and Abroad
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10/03/18
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“Holy Mackerel”
Thus Spoke Ginger
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10/01/18
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Another Return to Casablanca
To Understand the Present
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09/28/18
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Teaching Students
And Learning as a Teacher
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09/24/18
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A Noble Person…
Meets Another Noble Person
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09/17/18
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Ginger Is the Love of My Life
As Seen in Music That I Love
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08/20/18
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What Goes Around
Comes Around…Again and Again
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08/17/18
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Deep State
Bob Woodward and Me
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08/15/18
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Be a Dreamer....
And Never Quit Dreaming.
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08/10/18
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Snow, the Virtuoso
Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev
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08/06/18
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The Ripple Effect…
“…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.”
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07/23/18
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Eppie…
Then and Now
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07/20/18
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The Weaker Sex
Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex
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07/11/18
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If I Fail…
I Will While Daring Greatly
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07/06/18
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It Is a Matter of Either / Or…
Lady Liberty or Donald the Dumb, Despicable, and Dishonest.
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07/04/18
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Possible Explanations of Death
A Personal Apocalypse
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06/29/18
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Teach Your Children Well
Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You….
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06/22/18
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Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty
Having Fun Without PaPa Al
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06/20/18
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Clarity About Dancing
Being Arthur Murray in the Real World
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06/11/18
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The House of Fear
And the Orange Pips
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06/08/18
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The Goddess Ganga
The Transcendence of Reality
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06/06/18
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Ti Ti and Her Family
My Assistants in Myanmar
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05/28/18
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Who Are Your Mentors?
Here Are Mine
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05/21/18
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Ten Years and Counting
What a Difference a Dance Makes
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05/18/18
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758 Horns of a Dilemma
The House of Cards
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05/16/18
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Forrester and Jamal
You and I
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05/11/18
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Projection
Lock Him Up
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05/07/18
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A Wrinkle in Time
Thinking Outside the Box
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04/25/18
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Dear PaPa Al.....
Dear Ti Ti
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04/16/18
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Frederick Douglass
A Better Man Than I
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04/13/18
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Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems…
A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar
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04/06/18
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Sherlock Holmes In Washington
While We Drank Ginger Grog
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04/04/18
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Easter Island
In the Past and Future
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04/02/18
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My Follow-Up…
To My Email To Ti Ti
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03/19/18
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Marner and Eppie
Me and the Girls
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03/16/18
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The Question Is…
How Will You Be Remembered?
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02/26/18
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An Age of Revolution
If We But Know What To Do With It
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02/16/18
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My Heart Issues
Both Hearts
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02/14/18
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Having a Purpose
Carpe Diem
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02/12/18
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The Widow’s Mite
And the Rich Donald the Dumb
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02/09/18
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The Water Horse of Loch Ness
And Our Water Horses of Life
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02/07/18
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The Art of Asking Questions…
About Which You Know the Answers
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02/05/18
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A Shopping Spree
With My Three Granddaughters
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02/02/18
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Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me
We Are the Incarnations of Bobby
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01/31/18
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Dressed to Kill
Ginger and I Watched Another Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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01/29/18
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I Failed
For the Time Being
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01/26/18
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What I Learned In High School
Applies To This Moment In Time
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01/24/18
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Lesson Learned About Dreaming
I Learned from Bobby
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01/22/18
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We Are Family
Versus Racism
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01/19/18
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Bobby the Runt
Turned into Bobby the Leader
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01/17/18
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The Best Week of My Life…
Occurred While I Was in Burma
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01/12/18
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Terror by Night
The Third of our Date and Dinner
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01/08/18
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My Thoughts about the Meaning of Life
My Perspective from My Twilight Years
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01/05/18
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Ginger's World...
Blends with My World
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01/03/18
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America
As Bobby, Moh Moh, and the Jazz Singer See It
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12/25/17
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The Scarlet Claw
A Date Night Movie
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12/18/17
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Doing the Dance...
Fathoming the Unfathomable
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12/11/17
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Ginger's World...
Blends with My World
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12/06/17
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Confucius Said...
But We Haven’t Listened
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12/04/17
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Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock...
Remember the Past or Repeat It.
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11/29/17
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The Big Fib:
"I'm, like, a really smart person."
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11/27/17
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The Many Michelangelo Painters of the Cave
The Renaissance of the Paleolithic Period
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11/13/17
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The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me
Ginger and Don Quixote
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11/10/17
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The Reason Behind...
Everything
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11/08/17
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The Balfour Declaration
One Explanation for the Mess in the Middle East
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11/01/17
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Another Fake News Item
War of the Worlds
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10/30/17
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Fake News...
Of the Italian Renaissance
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10/25/17
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Live in the Moment...
Plan for the Future
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10/20/17
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Ginger and Santayana
Remember the Past
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10/09/17
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Lawrence of Arabia
One of My Mentors
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10/06/17
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Ti Ti
A Reason for Being
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10/02/17
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Ginger and I
Promises To Keep and Miles To Go Before We Sleep
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09/29/17
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Ginger
AKA Longshanks
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09/27/17
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Mr. Lee and Mr. Rotteveel
Two Stories: About When I Was Young and When I Am Old
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09/22/17
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The Double-Axe
A Symbol of My Identity
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09/15/17
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The Hollow Man
Who Wears Long Ties
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09/04/17
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When Dreams Aren’t Realized
What Should You Do?
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09/01/17
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Ginger
And the Issue of Kissing
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08/30/17
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Minnows or Manhood
Or Scent of a Woman....
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08/28/17
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Akhenaten...
My Mentor
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08/25/17
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Get Educated—
Travel
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08/23/17
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Essay with No Words
But Look At My Eyes
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08/21/17
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“Better Angels of Our Nature”
In America, Mexico, and Burma
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08/19/17
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Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb—
The President of Trump University
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08/18/17
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Draining the Swamp...
And Adding to the Swamp
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08/14/17
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To Attach or Not to Attach
That Is the Question
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08/11/17
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Ti Ti and I
A Most Haunting Relationship
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08/04/17
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Macbeth...
Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt
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08/02/17
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The Pentagon Papers...
Then and Now
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07/31/17
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Ginger
And Her Unconditional Love
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07/28/17
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Just Another Lie
Of the Liar-In-Chief
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07/21/17
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Oppie
The Scientist and the Philosopher
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07/17/17
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Just Drop Me Off
And Ginger’s Toy Dog
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07/14/17
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Rage, Rage...
Against the Pissing Pug
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07/10/17
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What Did I Learn...
From Vinegar Joe
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07/05/17
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I Pledge Allegiance
To Donald the Dumb
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07/03/17
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Impeachment of Trump
And the Tower of Babel
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06/30/17
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Donald the Dumb’s Dilemma
Falling from Great Heights
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06/21/17
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The Benefit of Failed Dreams
The Dalai Lama’s Oxymoron
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06/19/17
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Teaching Donald the Dumb
There Is No Happiness Where There Is No Wisdom
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06/16/17
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The Ides of June
And Religious Ties
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06/14/17
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“Grace Under Pressure”
The Way to be a Leader
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06/12/17
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First and Last Witch Hunt...
The Work of the Village Idiots
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06/09/17
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What Were You Doing on D-Day?
Being What You Might Have Been
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06/05/17
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Breaking News from Ginger
About Trump Colluding with the Russians and Putin
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06/02/17
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HMS Terror, HMS Erebus, Global Warming…
Or Nonsense from Those Godless Chinese Communists
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05/26/17
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Bridge Builder or Wall Builder
A Clear Choice for Donald the Dumb
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05/22/17
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Ginger’s Predecessors
And My Domesticated Carnivore
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05/19/17
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Class, Easter Ham, and Kayaking...
The Morphing of My World
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05/15/17
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Three Blind Mice…
And Bloody Mary
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05/08/17
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Brexit vs Scoxit
The Death Blow to the British Empire
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05/01/17
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To Become…
What You Might Have Been
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04/28/17
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Getting It Together…
An Avenue to Acquiring Dreams
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04/26/17
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Ginger’s World…
Donald the Dumb’s Cave
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04/24/17
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Campbell’s Cooking Class
Teaches More Than Cooking
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04/21/17
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The Meaning of Life
It Is All About Fighting the Good Fight for Others
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04/19/17
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Life Is a Bowl of Cherries
Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
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04/14/17
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This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef...
And Ginger Devoured the Little Piggy’s Ear
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04/10/17
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Elephant in the Room
Trump's Mental State
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04/07/17
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Pride Before Fall
Learnings from History
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04/03/17
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Chick Magnet
And the Hauntings
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03/31/17
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Approval Ratings
For Someone Who is Insecure
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03/29/17
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The Hauntings
About Bobby and the Gingers
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03/27/17
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Emperor's Clothes
The Donald Isn't Invisible
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03/24/17
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A Tweet to God...
A Tweet from James Baldwin
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03/20/17
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Crowd Size
Size Isn't Critical, But the Truth Is
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03/15/17
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On Riding to Samara
Then and Now....
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03/10/17
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Invictus
Thank You, Mrs. Davis
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03/06/17
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A Dog's Purpose
The Person's Purpose
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03/03/17
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P.T. Barnum Has Returned to Life
What Goes Around, Comes Around
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02/27/17
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Robert the Bruce
I'll Drink to Him!
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02/17/17
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Ginger, Socks, and Poe
Finding Lenore....
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02/13/17
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Narcissus and the Donald
"I Love Me...."
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02/10/17
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Adams and Jefferson
An Ethical Battle
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02/08/17
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Lambs Eat Ivy
And Ginger Eats Lamb Ears
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02/06/17
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Icarus and the Donald
Warning About Flying Too High
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02/03/17
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The Meaning of Ginger
The Winter Solstice
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02/01/17
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Winfield Scott
And Where I Live
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01/25/17
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A Lesson of Life
Learned from a Cockroach
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01/04/17
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Ginger, the Dances, and the Lady
It Is All About Determination
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01/02/17
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Step Beyond the Impossible Wall
Learning from the Mongols
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12/28/16
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Mentor Tell You Something About You
The Value of Post-it Notes
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12/09/16
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Deplorable...
Defining the Definition
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11/25/16
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Chimps or Bonobos
From Whence Did You Evolve?
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11/21/16
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Roll Me Up
I Am Free to be Me at 73
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11/18/16
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The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan
Triangulation Process
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11/14/16
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Moby Dick Found
But Not in a Book
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10/19/16
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Resurrecting Dashed Dreams
By Continuing to Dream
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10/17/16
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I Challenge the Trim Trump
To Test His Stamina Against Mine
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10/03/16
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The Fighting Téméraire
Explained My Nostalgia to Me
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09/21/16
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Why Do I Care?
More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care?
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09/16/16
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The Meltdown of the Donald
As America Watches
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09/12/16
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Moh Moh Spoke
And She Sounded Like Don Quixote
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09/09/16
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Return to Myanmar
Dream Big
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09/02/16
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Trying and Failing...
Is Better than Failing without Trying
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08/26/16
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Listening to My Mentors
And Dreaming Impossible Dreams
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08/19/16
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The Terrorism Trifecta
Three More Dances with Death
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08/12/16
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Bobby Kennedy
Still Reaches Out to Us.
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07/29/16
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The Queen's Haunting...
Bohemian Rhapsody
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07/27/16
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My Love Letters
They Must Be Written
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07/22/16
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We Shall Overcome
A Belief Amid Darkness
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07/18/16
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Prediction of Clinton's Running Mate
And Her Running Mate Is....
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07/08/16
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Last Words
Or Don Quixote's Joists with Windmills
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07/04/16
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My Sherpa Statue Spoke
A Valuable Time Spent Listening
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06/17/16
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The 5-Things Test
Seeing Yourself as Others See You
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06/15/16
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The Angel Spoke...
And I Listened.
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06/10/16
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The Thinkers Three
Jack, Owen, and Me
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06/06/16
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The Donald
The Relationship Between Ignorance and Knowledge
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05/20/16
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Mr. Turner
The Dualism of Feelings
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05/06/16
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Morphing of the Flu with Polio
A Strange Juxtaposition
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04/29/16
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I am Don Quixote
But I Am Not from La Mancha
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04/15/16
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Maude Adams
Found Somewhere in Time
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04/13/16
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In My Life
I'll Never Lose Affection for People and Things
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04/11/16
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Learning from My Mentor
A Knight-Errant On His Deathbed
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03/28/16
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On Seeing the Light
Chuck, Paul, and Me
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03/04/16
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Two Roads in the Wood
Choose Wisely
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02/26/16
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Grave or No Grave
That is the Question
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02/22/16
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Best of Times, Worst of Times
It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely
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02/19/16
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Buddha's Strange Parable...
Which We Need to Understand
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02/15/16
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The Value of Dreaming
About My List of Dulcineas
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02/12/16
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Another Dancer
David Hume
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02/01/16
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Revitalizing My Brain
After Winding Up in ICU
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01/25/16
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"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun."
Randy Pausch is Correct
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01/15/16
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The Little Match Girl
And The Golden Statue
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01/11/16
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The Gift of an Angel
It is More About My Feelings
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01/06/16
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Pathétique
Moving Music
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12/16/15
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Doing the Dance Again
How to Address Both New Dances
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12/11/15
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I Know Who I Am...
And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me
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12/04/15
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Responses to Paris
Both Are Vital
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11/25/15
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What a Feeling
And It Is a Great Feeling
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11/20/15
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The Campbell Cookie Jar
The Tie In Between the Past and the Present
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10/28/15
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Doubling Down...
To Make Dreams Come True
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10/19/15
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The Old Pine Table
An Object of Renewal and Rebirth
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10/14/15
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It's Confession Time...
And It Isn't Sunday
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10/09/15
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The Mahogany Bench
A Place for Dreaming....
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10/07/15
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The Little Wooden Box
An Updated Pandora's Box
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09/30/15
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A Great Dancer with Death
A Sobering Experience
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09/21/15
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Putting the Pieces Together
The Joy of Coming of Age
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09/18/15
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The Tulip Pitcher
A Picture of Springtime
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09/16/15
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The Felt Picture
A Picture of Hopefulness
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09/09/15
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A Second Look at Life
Toward the End of Life
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09/07/15
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From Whence Does the Spark Come?
The Creative Act of Pondering
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08/24/15
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The Value of Pain
Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo
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08/21/15
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A Man with a Mission...
Sinking a German U-boat
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08/12/15
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Intelligent Life on Other Planets
Is there anyone there; does anyone care out there?
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08/10/15
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What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago,
Which I Finally Fully Understand
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07/10/15
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Alan Seeger
And His Dance with Death
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07/04/15
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What I Learned About Life...
From Facing Down the Dragon
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06/29/15
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Wading Through the Water of Life
Advice by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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06/24/15
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Career Opportunity...
Being a Gladiator
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06/19/15
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The Benefit of Problems
Or the Only Means to Success
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06/08/15
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Cancer and Crabs
Strange History that They Both Share
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06/05/15
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Vonnegut's Dance with Death
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06/01/15
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Dancing with Death
Allows You to Live
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05/22/15
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Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens
How to Avoid the Ghosts
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05/08/15
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Nepal Then
And Now
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05/03/15
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"We Get Old Too Soon...
And Wise Too Late"
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04/27/15
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Booth Died 150 Years Ago Today
How Has America Changed?
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04/26/15
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Fertilizing Daffodils
But in the Meantime....
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04/24/15
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How Do We Learn?
The Lessons in Learning
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04/13/15
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Ode to Joy
In the Midst of Pain
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03/27/15
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Lead Death as You Dance with Death
It Will Change Your Life
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03/24/15
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Reliving Many Bloody Sundays
Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement
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03/07/15
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"All Mankind is Divided Into Three Classes..."
Some Aren't Buried Until They Are Seventy-five
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02/23/15
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Obama's Golden Opportunity
On Leaving a Legacy
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02/13/15
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Suffering Yields Success
Worrying Yields Warts
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01/14/14
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"Every Child is an Artist."
The Question is What Remains in Adulthood?
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01/12/15
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Ozone to Ferguson
A Journey That Never Seems To End
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01/05/15
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It Was the Best of Times
It Was the Worst of Times....
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01/01/15
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A Hand Is Put Into Theirs...
And the Hand May Be a Little Child's
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12/29/14
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Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
The Disconnect Between Dreaming and Reality
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12/26/14
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Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915
"I Never Died," Says He.
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11/19/14
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From Witches to Marrying Monkeys
Conservatives Have an Answer
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11/10/14
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To Thine Own Self Be True...
An Ethical First Step
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10/24/14
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A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great
"Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal."
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10/17/14
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My Dots in Life Get Connected
With the Singing of Pete Seeger
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10/06/14
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Nothing is Secure
Which is a Great Blessing
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10/03/14
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Christopher Robin is Correct...
However, You Must Believe It Before It Is.
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09/29/14
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Wolverton Mountain
The Place Where Dreams Occur
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09/26/14
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Pushing Oneself...
What I Learned from T. S. Eliot
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09/14/14
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Darkest Before Dawn
A Logical Disconnect that Is True
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08/15/14
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Come Alive...
Before You Die.
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07/24/14
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Orwell and Scottish Independence
Or Smell the Heather and Vote for Independence
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07/18/14
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Burma-Shave...
And Seeing the Light
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07/07/14
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The Chilling Reality of Global Warming
Where Does Lying Get Politicians and the Rest of Us?
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06/28/14
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Connecting the Dots...
For Scottish Independence
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06/24/14
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Moravec Evolution
or the 21st Century Scopes Trial
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06/21/14
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Old Men Should Plant Trees...
And They Should Be Planted Now.
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06/16/14
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Connecting the Dots With Jack and Owen
Teaching Them To Be Steve Jobs-esque
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06/14/14
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Changing the World...
The Story of My Struggle
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06/10/14
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Jack and Owen
Novice 21st Century Johnny Appleseeds
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06/01/14
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Leaving a Legacy...
A Concern of a 71-Year Old.
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05/18/14
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Learning to Play Chess from a Master
What Jack and Owen Will Learn from Me.
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05/02/14
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Faulkner's Lesson of Life...
Even When the Last Ding-dong of Doom has Clanged.
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04/17/14
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Connecting the Dots...
On Your Way to Eldorado
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09/09/12
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