I'm a centrist. I really don't belong to any one political party. I'd like to think that I'm issues driven. I could side with one issue that might be proposed by Republicans, or I could support another from the Democrats. Unfortunately, like too ...
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Outside of the Bible, more quotations are attributed to William Shakespeare than any other source.

It was probably the height of arrogance to have ever thought that I might be perfect, and that there was always something wrong with everyone else. After all, was I not the common denominator in all of my relationships?

Sometimes, in an attempt to find your soul mate, you end up discovering your equal. Unfortunately, this does not always turn out so well.

We all have our lists of what we want to see in another individual. Sometimes these lists are rather general such as being interested in someone who is kind, sensitive, successful or loyal. People whose lists have a lot of generalities are more a ...
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The phrase, “love is blind,” first coined by William Shakespeare, was clinically confirmed by scientists in 2004 at the University Col

In Thomas Wolfe’s 1940 novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again,” the protagonist laments at the end that “You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame…” Today, we might simply ...
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If I asked boomers what their legacy might be, I’m sure I would receive a lot of quizzical looks. For most of us the demands of everyday living, especially in these trying times, preoccupies our thinking. I’m sure there are very few that have tho ...
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To paraphrase Charles Dickens, “It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.”  If you have your health and vigor it is certainly the best of times. If you are financially challenged during this horrible economic period, you may feel it is t ...
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Two months before The Battle of the Bulge my father was called up by his local draft board. When they asked him to read the third line on the chart he said, “What chart?” Bang! That was it. He was declared 4F and excused from military service. A ...
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