Monthly Archives: February 2020

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 2020 is a Leap Year.  It takes Earth about 365 days and 6 hours to orbit the sun. Those extra six hours create a problem for our Gregorian calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII and introduced in 1582) which is only 365 days long.  In order to keep step with […]

Carpe Diem

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Susan Brownell Anthony was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the leading figure in the women’s voting rights movement.  She was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, MA, the second of eight children to a cotton mill owner and his wife, but only five of her siblings […]

Susan B. Inspires Me

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In just a couple of days we will celebrate Valentine’s Day, ostensibly the most romantic holiday of the year:  ubiquitous chubby cherubs and big red hearts, candlelight dinners, gifts of roses and chocolate, perhaps lacy lingerie or dazzling diamonds, all accompanied with flowery phrases of undying love.  But what if […]

Love and Loss

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