Category: that’s life
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Blog Twenty Four: One Week In the Ole Folks Home
“Family” is a funny word. The traditional family structure in the United States is considered a family support system involving two married individuals providing care and stability for their biological offspring. However, this two-parent, nuclear family has become less prevalent, and alternative family forms have become more common. …So says Wikipedia. I’ve spent much…
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Blog Twenty Three: The 62 Percent
“Trump won 62% of the white female voters without college degrees, while Clinton won 34%.” Kind of blows my mind that ANY woman would pass on this opportunity to elevate her gender. Can you imagine the reaction of the Suffragettes – writhing in their graves, shaking their bony, dust-drenched skulls in disbelief. How many suffered…
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Blog Eighteen: Real Time Popcorn-time
There’s a luscious vegetarian cookbook on my piano. Gourmet recipes and top notch photography in a very artful package. When I flip through the pages, my mouth starts to water. It’s a little like flipping through Bon Appetit – only better. I bought this book for my wife, Sue Ann. Sue Ann is a voracious…
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Blog Fourteen: Our Favorite Martian
On Friday morning, I found out that my girlfriend is forwarding to the next round of Mars One. The Mars One candidacy endeavor is choosing 24 (extra) ordinary citizens of the earth to colonize the red planet. The goal is set for ten years. Round Three has whittled its applicants down to 100 from over…