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It’s so easy to forget in the midst of winter’s blanketed paralysis, that cold misery is temporary. As logs burn down to crumbles while our discomfort is…
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Here we go again. From Richard Nixon to Newt Gingrich to Donald Trump, the bias against unbiased news reporting continues. The president recently…
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This commentary originally aired on July 15, 2016I got tired of tripping over our old dining chairs, stored in our basement. We replaced them months ago,…
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You think you know somebody and then they slap you right in the face with their “Make America Great Again” cap. This happened to me recently in a…
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Do we really need a “Space Force”? Extremely Stable Genius Donald Trump seems to think so, and that should be good enough for most of us.Trump may just…
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This commentary originally aired on April 4, 2018.Some months ago we decided to add to our family and we adopted a labradoodle. His calm and demure…
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You're listening to me right now, so you may be aware of the latest NPR controversy: The new Morning Edition theme song.I’ve heard the new version and all…
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Hey! Remember Reddy Kilowatt? Loved that guy! What a stroke of genius it was for electrical monopolies to adopt a cute little cartoon figure mascot.But as…
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Right now. Right in the earliest, blooming-est, greening-est weeks of springtime, the season of rejuvenation, right now comes a soul-wilting tragedy: the…
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These days, I take hope from whatever small corners of my world I can find it in. After all, we live among folks who can easily get outraged about a…
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Today’s the first day of spring and I welcome it with all of my heart. Every year at this time when the birds start their early morning singing, I get…
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So I stopped in at the Dollar Tree yesterday. Tempted as I was by the one-dollar bamboo back scratchers and the one-dollar iridescent purple pineapple…