On the way home from running a few errands the other day, I stopped and bought a new computer. It was only a few hours later that it suddenly dawned upon me what a truly remarkable thing I had just done.
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Not Normal – Not Then, Not Now
You’ve probably heard the phrase tossed casually about by political commentators or business news reporters – “we need a new normal,” “families began experiencing a new normal in housing over the last year,” “this could turn a bad recession into the new normal” – but when, if ever, have you heard the phrase actually explained; […]
A Great Way to Say Thanks
Following the recent unfortunate incident where a Portland Police officer was asked to leave a café because he was in uniform, two entirely different reactions occurred – both of which said something definitive about our society today.
No Milk or Sugar for Me, Thank You
Ever since I was a small child, I’ve been a tea drinker. My maternal grandmother and my Aunt Rose, in a good-natured but earnest struggle to ensure that my young tastes would grow to embrace their beverage of choice as opposed to my father’s family’s coffee-drinking traditions, put water-thinned tea in my bottle as a […]