People who get in my car notice the Bilbo Baggins action figure sitting in the console. With the inevitable grin, they ask me, "So what's that about?" I answer them, "Bilbo is the patron saint of my car,...
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Dec 7, 2012
Editor's Note: According to Ecclesiastes 3, "There is a time for everything...." Not everything on that list, however, comes to us easily. Some items confound, others liberate, and none of them surrender to our...
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Nov 30, 2012
by canvaschild
Editor's Note: According to Ecclesiastes 3, "There is a time for everything...." Not everything on that list, however, comes to us easily. Some items confound, others liberate, and none of them surrender to our...
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Nov 23, 2012
by Sam Van Eman
It's Black Friday and many of us have been on the hunt for bargains already this morning. Today's cultural phenomenom marks the official start to Shopping Season. Killer deals, unbelievable offers, mail-in rebates...
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Nov 16, 2012
Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home is not far from my grandmother’s house in Southern Indiana. I spent most of my summers with her, and she would take me to "ole Abe's house." Safe to say, I viewed...
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Nov 16, 2012
Editor's Note: According to Ecclesiastes 3, "There is a time for everything...." Not everything on that list, however, comes to us easily. Some items confound, others liberate, and none of them surrender to our...
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Nov 15, 2012
by craiggoodwin
Editor's Note: According to Ecclesiastes 3, "There is a time for everything...." Not everything on that list, however, comes to us easily. Some items confound, others liberate, and none of them surrender to our...
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Nov 2, 2012
When The Big Bang Theory appeared on TV, all my friends told me I should watch it. They said, "it has science jokes, comic books, nerd stuff. You'll dig it." I would insist, "I'm not really a nerd or a...
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Nov 2, 2012
by Sam Van Eman
“Do you think you are getting old, and is that hard for you?”
So asked the student as our hiking group sat along the trail for a break. It’s become apparent, I guess, that I am no longer in their age group...
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Oct 26, 2012
Dear Kevin,
Enclosed please find a pocket watch, a gift from me to you. Gift is perhaps the wrong word; maybe think of it as a trust.
Your father entrusted this gift to me twenty-five years ago (give or take a year)—or...
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