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by Cynthia Pinsonnault - 2006-12-18
Let me tell you about how bad I am with plants - really bad. I used to be really good. At one time, I had plants not just growing but thriving all over my home. Now the only things I seem to be able t...
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by Fred Krone - 2007-01-14
I recently compared the war in Iraq to a bad Hollywood movie: green-lit for all the wrong reasons, way over budget and with no end in site. Except this is a b-movie where the horrors come off the scr...
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by Jim Gustafson - 2007-02-02
"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth." Molly IvinsMolly Ivins, one of this generation's commentators, died yesterday. She lost a valiant fight against bre...
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by Teri Franta - 2007-02-20
Recently, while in the checkout line at the grocery store, I heard this muffled voice squawking from somewhere below. I turned around and looked at the woman standing directly behind me. Apologeticall...
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by June Stepansky - 2007-03-06
Hemingway failed.Sylvia Plath failed.They dug into a rich vein,and came up empty.That inward journeyshould have led past terrifying crevassestoward light.Somewherethey took a wrong turn,followed a pat...
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by June Stepansky - 2007-03-06
Creativity is like algebra:a thought from column (A)plus a thought from column (B)becomes the new solution (AB),creating something extraordinaryout of something ordinary.Creativity is the electricity ...
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by June Stepansky - 2007-03-06
If fatherscan molest their daughters,if motherscan abuse their children,if husbands can stab their wivesand women shoot their lovers,is it so surprisingthat strangers canannihilate each otherwith such...
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by June Stepansky - 2007-03-07
It is time to move on,discard the chrysalis,that necessary spinningwhich bound me to the past.Now I will be,not become.Emerge wholeSoar!------------------------------------It is impossible to achieve ...
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by June Stepansky - 2007-03-08
Control is not about deprivation.It's about understanding limitations.It's the realization thattoo much of a good thingcan ultimately be a bad thing,and too much of a bad thingcan ultimately lead to s...
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by June Stepansky - 2007-03-08
The days drop like leaves, and are swept away.The violent wind blows words into crevasseswhere they fester.Let the fragrant windblow words into crevasseswhere they might bloom.Let the caressing winddr...
