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“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.”  My sister Jan still reminds me of the phrase’s importance. 

“I think people are too busy to rest,” one colleague declared to me on the phone.  Another friend wrote the

You would have thought she was carrying The Holy Grail: that’s how my friend treated the return of my season

Putting one foot in front of the other is difficult some days.  Robert Robinson was the 18th century Cambridge pastor

“Trim 10 pounds for Christmas by walking” suggests a headline from a ladies’ journal in my mailbox.  The Mayo Clinic

I scored 126th out of 126 students.  When I was a junior in high school our class took a test

Pioneers.  Explorers.  Trailblazers.  Others have gone before us.  And it’s a good thing.  Forerunners like Lewis and Clark established the

When I was a boy my teachers would tape those cardboard cut-outs of a Thanksgiving scene to the classroom windows. 

“Where are you going?” is the famous phrase from the title of the novel by Polish Nobel Prize author Henryk

Country music: I confess for years I hated it.  But lately the “twang” has been replaced with the “thang.”  A