I realize I’m late to the party, but suddenly I’m taken with Sudoku. That’s the number-placement puzzle that has occurred in various newspapers for years and challenges readers to “insert numbers one to nine into a grid consisting of nine

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They did it! The Washington Nationals won the World Series against a formidable Houston Astros team expected to take the whole tamale. The Nationals also became the first team to win on the road. Meaning they won four out of

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Every now and then I receive a newsletter from a printing company in Marceline, Missouri. The most recent one asked the question, “Why are margins important?” And since this is a printing company, I knew the margins being studied referred

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You might just be compulsive if you add completed tasks to your To Do List only to cross them off.

Or if you alphabetize the spices in the spice drawer. And the soup cans too. Or if the lid on

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It’s been five days since I’ve blogged. At times I feel guilty about skipping a day or two. But then I remember that I’m basically doing this for my own benefit and not to amass a gazillion readers. Although that

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I needed a couple credits in college to graduate a thousand years ago. Being a pragmatist even then, I didn’t want to exert myself any more than necessary to get them. So I took a two-credit art course rather than

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Three nights ago, a young shortstop named Nicholas Mackie Hoerner (Nico for short) played his first major league game ever. It was in a Cubs uniform against the San Francisco Padres. He is 22.

On his first time at the

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