It's approaching that time of night when I am about ready to turn out the lights. It's been a good birthday and it's just about over - nothing dramatic, just an ordinary kind of day with the exception of all…
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It's late, almost midnight, and I'm not tired quite yet. In seven minutes, before this even gets posted, it will be my 61st birthday. Well, I guess it won't officially happen until sometime around 9:32 or so tomorrow evening. I…
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Each evening when I sit down to write, I have something of a ritual that I go through to prepare for whatever I am to write about that particular day. It starts with opening the Transitions "dashboard" - better known…
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It's that time again - the Winter Olympics are currently in the background while I am writing this evening. They are being held in Sochi, Russia and the games this first week have been a collection of highs, lows and…
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The years come and go; and sometimes I forget to think about some of the things that were so important to me as a youngster in grammar school. I don't know about you, but tonight I was thinking about Mom…
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Yesterday, TV anchor Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation and well known newsman, announced to the world that he was diagnosed with cancer last August during a trip to the Mayo Clinic. While the prognosis seems to be positive,…
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It was one year ago today that Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly announced his upcoming retirement from the papacy, effective February 28, 2013. For the first time in many centuries, since 1294 when Pope Celestine V stepped down from the office,…
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If you were born in the 1950's or before, you undoubtedly remember February 9, 1964. That's fifty years ago this evening! It's so hard to believe that Ringo is seventy-three now, Paul seventy-one! And, unfortunately, they are the only two…
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I am amazed recently by the number of people who are requesting prayers from other believers. Yes, I know that we are to love one another and help one another, but day after day I am confronted by people who…
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Today is Groundhog Day, 2014. It's been a tough winter and I'm sure that people around the country, especially in the midwest, are looking forward to winter being over. In our neck of the woods, we are far above the…
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