Archives in Category: Things to Ponder

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Perkiness

Posted on April 18, 2006

Last week, Katie Couric made the announcement that she is leaving behind fifteen years on the Today Show to become the primary news anchor on a competing station. Eyebrows shot up. The media rushed to cover the story, giving it

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Easter

Posted on April 17, 2006

Yesterday was Easter Sunday and maybe it was Passover too; I’m not sure anymore. Time was when I spent not only Easter Sunday but also much of the previous week in church. But that time is as long gone as

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Lincoln

Posted on April 14, 2006

One hundred forty-one years ago today, Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States of America, succumbed to an assassin’s bullet. There is nobody alive now who remembers that ignominious event. Yet, historians still recall the drama of it. Book

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Bird Bodyguards

Posted on April 13, 2006

This morning I was driving home from purchasing a much-needed Starbucks®, that oh-so-necessary-coffee-break as the business world pummels you, when I heard an interesting thing on the radio. It seems that birds which are migrating north from their winter habitats

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The Three Hundred Pound Envelope

Posted on April 12, 2006

We received a bill from FedEx a couple days ago for an envelope we sent recently to a Realtor® in Chicago. The envelope contained a set of four keys and nothing else. It was a standard FedEx issue envelope too,

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News Outlets

Posted on April 10, 2006

We stopped at the gas station on our way to breakfast yesterday morning to buy the Sunday Chicago Tribune.

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Perfect May Not Be

Posted on April 7, 2006

I never know who reads my blog unless a person contacts me one way or another to express an opinion or offer an insight. It’s like casting bread upon the waters.

However, over the past months, I’ve heard regularly from

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Exhaustion

Posted on April 6, 2006

I know I’m exhausted because the littlest thing sets me off. An innocuous telephone call, an email from my son that sounds as if he’s chastising me, the FedEx man arriving at my door with more paperwork. I roll my

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Solution

Posted on April 5, 2006

I recently read an article by Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, which makes complete sense to me. It offers a logical solution for ending the same-sex marriage debate between conservatives and liberals. At

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Maps

Posted on April 4, 2006

I was rooting around in Earl’s car’s glove compartment looking for a particular map, and it struck me that the contents of the compartment provided a history of our road trips together. I smiled in remembrance.

We bought the map

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