Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “O Brave New World” All of us are “the last generation” to live in a certain kind of world. Those of us born around the beginning of the Second World War were, as Michael Gruber points out in his novel Tropic of Night, the last to […]
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STAY HEALTHY! By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D.t Medicine Of Tomorrow Is Here TodayPART II Confusion seems to be everywhere when it comes to healthcare. Many times people get very confused because there is so much information from so many sources about remedies, treatments, supplements, cures, the magic solutions, and so on. The internet,
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ANITA’S ANIMALS By Jean Sutherland Keeping the Cat Happy Many of us here long for the days when we could go to the local pet store and buy a nice scratching pole for our cat. The lack of a good pet store has led many of us to invent different ways to satisfy our
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Turn Strong To Meet The Day Several years ago, my wife and I received a hand-crafted prayer card from a good friend. That card has remained firmly affixed to the mirror in my bathroom so that I will be certain that it comes into view the first
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Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Gieger Wild, Exotic or Domestic? After a recent educational event we were sitting around chatting with friends, one commented on how beautiful Flamita is. Flamita (little flame) is a corn snake, but not your normal corn snake, her unusual red, orange and cream color is the result of
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Managing From the Heart Before I begin this column, I’m proud to announce the release of my first book, Joyful Musings. It is a memoir of sorts about my growing up and learning about life, both north and south of the border. It is available
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Why Do People Believe Weird Things? In my former life, I was a professor at a community college. I have had a long-standing interest in rationalism and critical thinking. I was active in the “critical thinking movement” in education. This was an effort to transform education from the
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Everyone knows that to make a contract of 3 No Trump you need to take 9 tricks. Nobody ever said they have to be the first 9! Another truism in bridge is that more mistakes are made at trick one than at any other point in the
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A BALLOON IN CACTUS By Maggie Van Ostrand Help Wanted! Years ago when all I could afford were old jalopies, the family joke was I needed to marry an auto mechanic. Nowadays my ideal mate would come with a degree in engineering, carpentry and plumbing as something always seems to be going wrong around
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan DominguezIT’S A FAT, FAT, FAT, FAT WORLD In 1963, producer-director Stanley Kramer made a movie called It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which was a bad, bad, bad movie, a pastiche of soggy sight-gags which featured several AARP personalities, including Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Andy
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