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While I agree with my mother’s last blog post for the most part, I have some additional thoughts. With respect to the experiment where high school students  line up for a race and the winner would receive a scholarship to the college of their choice, but those students who had […]

Rebuttal

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From  The Animal Collection by Richard Terboss * Okapi Have you ever met an Okapi? They are shy and not at all sloppy. Its top half looks like a short-necked giraffe And its bottom half like a Zebra’s pa-ja-ma. Makes you wonder who is its daddy and And furthermore who […]

Sharing a Smile

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To the world you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.  Taylor Hanson After two failed relationships—the first due to desertion, the second because of bigamy—Luanne was left to raise four children as a single mother.  With the support of family, a strong faith […]

Prince Charming

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Although the weather is frequently dull and dreary, the last nine weeks of the year have always been a fun and festive season of celebration for me: the trick and treating of Halloween (10/31); election day (depending on the outcome); our Wedding Anniversary (11/5- we were blessed with fifty-six); our […]

Darkness and Light

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“It’s a boy!” a first born son.  On the day that child was welcomed into the world, celebrations were held around the globe and around the clock. There were fireworks and bells chimed in every church and cathedral; there were gala parties where champagne corks popped and orchestras played; and […]

Heritage

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The Catholic Church celebrates the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on its traditional fixed date of September eighth, nine months after the December eighth celebration of her Immaculate Conception, as the child of Saints Joachim and Anne. The circumstances of the Virgin Mary’s infancy and early life are not directly […]

Happy Birthday Mary

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