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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. ― Walt Whitman

This morning, a quote came to me, along with a flurry of other emails sent to my inbox. It is a good one, I’m sure. But here is the thing about the quote. I am not a sailor. Nor have I ever been aboard a sailing boat. Whenever I’ve gone on the water, the power

It always used to happen right in the middle of a good stickball game. We would really be going at it, a tough game, and low and behold, the street cleaner would come plodding down the street. We always cleared away a good amount of space, just in case they would kick up a little

I’ll tell you how Vlad the Impaler died. Judging by his name, one would make assumptions about the events surrounding his death. Most likely, they would be correct. But first, let’s get his name right. It was Vlad Dracul. That’s right. He is most famously known by his family name. Dracula. Of course, this inspired

Well, it is bugging me, so I’m going to own up to my pettiness. A little background, though. Celebrities are celebrities. If you willingly enter into a career of acting or singing, you understand that you run the risk of reaching that “celebrity” status at some point in your life. By definition, celebrities are identified

I can’t help but talk about the devastation over the weekend. As we all well know, a series of storms swept over the country on Saturday night and into Sunday morning. The wake of its path was tremendous and horrible. They say that as many as 70 people are believed to have been killed in

“All that we are, is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” ― Buddha