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People. People who need people. Are the luckiest people, in the world. Well. Maybe Streisand was right. Maybe she wasn’t. But one thing is for sure. Whether we need people or not, we got ’em. All around us. The current world population is roughly 8.1 billion people.You can check the clock here anytime. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ But […]

The Silences By Linda Stowe One of the complaints I had about my ex-husband (#3 on your scorecards) was that when we watched things on TV, he would think nothing of leaving the room in the middle of a show or even coming in late. The first thing he always said when he returned was,

We would all like to open our eyes in the morning, lift our heads from the pillow, and start belting out those precious words: Good mornin’, starshineThe Earth says, “Hello”You twinkle above usWe twinkle below Good mornin’, starshineYou lead us alongMy love and me as we singingOur early mornin’ singin’ song Gliddy glub gloopy, nibby

I like music.But the kind of music I like might be quite different from the kind of music you like. And both might be different from what is considered “popular.” The measure of this is subjective.Subjective. Here in America, we’ve created a contest to tell us what the “best” music is, each year. The contest

How did Kermit say it?It’s not easy being Green? Believe it or not (and many people don’t), we humans have wrecked the planet. Rising global temperatures, melting polar ice caps, and shrinking glaciers are just the start of things. We don’t see those here in the Midwest. But what we have seen up close and

Dull Men’s Club By Linda Stowe Well, there was quite the ruckus in the Facebook Dull Men’s Club group this week. The post that started it all began with this statement: “My wife has just been informed by our college freshman that ending a text with a period is considered by the young generation as

Disco, baby. We all remember it. John Travolta in his white suit. The black shirt underneath, open half way, revealing his hairy chest as he thrusts his right arm high into the air. “Gimme that night fever, night fever… we know how to show it.” The Disco Era exploded when Saturday Night Live hit the

honest | ˈänəst |adjectivefree of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere true | tro͞o | adjective (truer | tro͞oər |, truest | tro͞oəst |) in accordance with fact or reality Most of us know and understand these words.They are not merely words but a standard in our moral fiber.They are in our hearts and minds. Then, why,