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Selling ourselves short (or at least briefly)
Last Friday, NPR’s All Things Considered ran a story about a challenge to top advertising agencies from Harper’s Magazine to create a Super Bowl commercial for the federal government. It’s all fun and...
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If you are not yourself today, who is?
Since receiving a Kindle this past Christmas my new favorite hobby is trolling amazon.com for unknown and out-of-print gems that amazon promotes by making available for dirt cheap or even free for...
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21 Aphorisms for October 21, 2011
If you’ve been wondering what radio preacher Harold Camping has been doing since the day the rapture didn’t happen, he’s been busy recalculating. The new date is October 21st, 2011. I’m thinking of...
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What Remains
This summer I spent several days with my mother sorting through boxes and trunks of belongings from my grandparents’ homes, many unexamined since being stored following their deaths a decade or more...
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Does Your Mother Know You Talk Like That?
Once when I was a teenager my mother tried to bolster my resistance against immoral influences by encouraging me to imagine that she was sitting next to me in whatever tempting circumstances I found...
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Apply Within
After a quiet couple of years on the hiring front, our college is conducting no fewer than 15 searches for faculty and administrators this fall. Right now we are just in the early stages, hoping that...
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Telling Better Stories
Election Day 2012 is less than a year away now, and even if you are about as ready for election season as you were to see the Christmas decorations go up at Wal-Mart the week before Halloween there’s...
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If necessary, go shopping
Like most kids of my generation (Oh my, surely I’m not old enough to refer to myself as having a “generation”!), this used to be the time of year for dog-earing pages of the giant Sears “Wishbook.”...
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Stuff
“A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it.” — George Carlin My family and I are preparing for our move to Savannah, Georgia, and George Carlin’s commentary on “stuff” has never seemed more...
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Make Decisions Good
The workshop presenter advanced the next Powerpoint slide in his list of essential steps to accomplish something-or-other. It read: Make Decisions Good. “That’s not a typo,” he cautioned wryly. “As...
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