Online Dating: The Rules

In life there are rules. In Online Dating, there are Rules. Read them here. 1. Be Honest About Your Dating Status  My personal pet peeve: men who lie about being single. Nothing is more infuriating than a man desperate to break in a new kitten. Signs to look for include:  – Picture-less profiles: married men […]

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Veteran’s Day 2009

I suppose it was somewhat heartening to see that our national parks and forests will be giving free admissions to U.S. veterans today in honor of Armistice Day. But there’s a small, bitter part of me which always finds such gestures to ring rather hollow and to be far from enough. The debt we owe […]

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The Soldier’s Christmas

A poem said to have been written by a soldier stationed in Okinawa, Japan. It describes a visit by Santa to a simple home occupied by a solider.  TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,HE LIVED ALL ALONE,IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OFPLASTER AND STONE. I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEYWITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,AND TO SEE […]

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Gifts for U.S. Soldiers

I just heard from my brother in Afghanistan, where he’s an Army National Guard sergeant in artillery. You’d think he would want gifts like CDs or video games — no. He asked for three things: Big Red (the drink, not the gum), pencils, and individually-wrapped candy. Why? Well, the Big Red is something those of […]

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A Soldier’s Letter from Iraq

This letter has been shared with me and I wanted to share it with everyone. This is the reality of what our Soldiers are living with in Iraq. They need us more than ever and we as a nation need to be there for them. I will warn you that some of this letter is […]

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Are you Ever Lonely?

When grief comes to a home, families receive support and comfort, but often a few days or weeks after the funeral service people begin to stay away. This is often when loneliness begins to set in with its full impact. This same type of loneliness can touch each individual whether we have suffered a loss […]

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Good Mourning: 25 Ways to Help you Grieve

Whether the loss is that of a spouse, child, parent, grandparent or friend, the expressions cited above reveal that no other life experience is as isolating, and painful as bereavement. The fact is, however, that people can have a period of bad mourning or good mourning, depending on the choices they make. Here are 25 […]

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Janis Joplin

The more you live, the less you die.” –Janis Joplin If you got it today, you don’t want it tomorrow, man. ‘Cos you don’t need it, So as a matter of fact, as we discover all the time, tomorrow never happens, man. It’s all the same f…n’ day, man!” –Janis Joplin, at live performance in […]

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Mildred Didrikson, who changed the spelling of her surname, acquired her nickname during sandlot baseball games with the neighborhood boys, who thought she batted like Babe Ruth. A talented basketball player in high school, Didrikson was recruited during her senior year in 1930 to do office work at Employers Casualty Company of Dallas and to […]

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The Basics in Business Card Etiquette

One thing you should not do with your business cards is to leave them sitting in the box that they came in when they are already delivered in your door. The objective of having them printed is to hand them out as soon as possible.  In fact, the faster you send them out, the better. […]

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