A youthful Texan walked onto the campus at Yale wearing faded denim pants, tall brown cowboy boots, a red and blue plaid shirt with rolled up sleeves, a bolo tie and a tan cowboy hat. His stride was long but relaxed as he traveled, a man in search of direction. Comfortable in being himself, he wore a casual smile on his wind-burned face.…

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The odds are you realize there are three personae to use in writing. You know a story can be written in first person, a situation where the character talks directly to you. Of course, it’s done by the writer, but the atmosphere created is of the character speaking only to you. It’s a much harder way of telling a story since the author, via the protagonist, (hero or heroine), can only…

Whether you're getting married or starting a new relationship this show is for you. Possibly you're already married into a new relationship after 40. Come and share your thoughts and experiences with us in this uplifting time. Kathy Jo Pollack, a certified relationship coach, presenting "Conscious Dating Virtual Coaching Program."…

Who’s the first person you ever met?

Many would say, “I call her Mom” but, in the majority of cases, that’s incorrect. The next one in line, among the quick witted, would be the doctor who delivered you, customarily an OB-GYN who treated Mom. Again, most likely wrong. In all likelihood it was a nurse or physician’s assistant, even if the doc did the…

The average homeless person isn’t even really average, not in a mathematical sense. With the population of the United States of America at some 307,000,000 currently, they make up an estimated 1%, give or take a couple hundred thousand. The average age of the homeless population is much the same as the rest of America. They span the gamut from newborn to those in their 80s.…

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Donors pay off food bank mortgage … finally someone with more money than they know what to do with uses it for something humanly worthwhile…

Perhaps that phrase bugs you as much as it does me. It scares me off the same way it does most of you. I’m a Christian, although it was in name only most of my life until I got my big, dumb ass into the most serious jam I’ve ever known. Still, when someone comes to me and says they’re “born…

Okay now, I want to see a show of hands.  Who out there has ever, or knows somebody who has tried a new diet?  After losing maybe ten to twenty pounds, you get sidetracked and the diet goes the by and by.  Here’s the part I find most interesting.  Within a short time, you regain the pounds you lost plus add five or ten extra pounds as a door prize.

In this article I will show you two things.  The first is why you can’t keep the weight off and the second is something you can…

Certain things must be learned by experience. Lessons that can’t really be taught in a class or grasped by reading about them in books. No, there are a few matters where the only way we can understand them is by having lived through the event. When we can see it from both sides, it makes perfect sense. However, if our sole source of information is the oral or printed word, something…

When I teach a writing class, one of the things I caution a potential or wannabe writer about is the tendency to flaunt things to the reader, such as advertising you have a new Thesaurus. A reader will find it annoying if required to keep a dictionary on hand in order to follow the story in a novel. One example is the term I used a short time ago to describe myself:…

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My Grandpa wasn’t even really “my Grandpa”, but he’s held that spot in my mind for about 50 years. His name was Bob McGeorge. He and Grandma “kept house”, in a manner of speaking, for around 20 years. They met at the cottage in Lake George, Michigan, which was built one cinder block at a time by my real Grandpa, Bill Thurston. He died while ice fishing at the lake when I was four,…