Songs always take me back or remind me of where I was when I listened to the song for the first time, or the time period during which I listened to the song frequently.  Right now, it's John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland".  I listened to this song during that long cold winter when …

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Well tonight we went to the Hogs game in Fayfay. It was great for the first 11:28 minutes, but at 3:32 left in the first quarter the weather booed us out. Thankfully we were with friends in a suite box, so we were out of the rain. We come to a couple of games every …

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I have several friends with cancer.  I check their Caring Bridge sites only on the weekends, because I just cannot check them during the week.  It’s not that I don’t care.  It’s that I know I will need at least 30 minutes, or possibly an hour, to read their posts and cry for their struggles, …

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I’m listening to Enya’s song Dreams are More Precious Than Gold, and I could not agree more. I love her music and have ever since my high school band teacher gave me one of her tapes (yes, cassette tape) in high school. I don’t know why he gave it to me. He just said he …

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I attended a session today on horizontal violence. No, get your mind out of the gutter, it has nothing to do with that. It's about bullying in the workplace, among other things. I was at a table with two really cool people. Although we had somewhat varying opinions, all three of us were adults and …

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Life is an upstream battle.  Much like the salmon who swim upstream, against the current, to spawn every year, we are all like little salmon in that same stream, fighting amongst the crowds to get where we are going.  For some of us, our destination is a better job, an education, a family, or a …

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I had a friend in high school.  We'll call her Pamela, Pam for short.  No, that's not her real name.  No, I will not make disparaging remarks about her, but I will tell you about how I became friends with her and, more importantly, why I did.  Pam was a year younger than I was, …

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Every day, I find myself noticing strange things.  I've decided to keep a log, mostly to be able to remember to tell the stories to others later, but also because I have too much rattling around in my head.  I need to do some brain house-cleaning, basically.  So...from yesterday, I have the following to offer: …

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