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Proper sweetener packet protocol

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Every family has its little traditions. Things that separate the living experience of families apart from every other family. Some of those things are horrific, I know, but some of

Abortion – Yea or Nay?

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Few issues are more emotionally charged in our society today than the subject of abortion. Each highly opinionated side has used social media, protest, and the ballot box to support

Scrapbooks can help document your year

Many interesting and special events take place during the course of a typical year. While the trend is to share photos and anecdotes via social media, these memories tend to be forgotten soon after they are posted. Rather than relegate birthdays, holidays, school milestones, and other such yearly events to the black hole of cyberspace, crafty men, women and children may want to display them in more prominent ways.

Curse worse than the disease

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EDITORIAL

Long-lauded as the alternative and promoted as safer than cigarettes, vaping is now under heavy scrutiny.

In any gathering space of humans, there will be diverse peoples who engage in diverse activities that have been labeled as harmful to the body. Overeating, drinking energy drinks, or smoking.

'Heck, no, Beto!'

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The very reason the Second Amendment was put in place is coming under fire from the very people who should never be trusted to control the weapons of a nation – the government.

Anyone with an operating brain can plainly see what is happening around the world when people are disarmed, and things do not end well for them. Once the inalienable right to self-defense is taken away, all of their other rights will follow.

The land of the lost authors

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Are you another lost author? Your beautiful or suspenseful words and creativity may be lost as those among many other undiscovered authors of the world! Your penned notes of personal history, heartfelt thoughts and rhymes scribbled in notations, diaries, or journals are filled with golden ideas and talented words which may never be discovered or shared with the writing or reading world. Often times, upon the death of an undiscovered author, their written gems may be scrapped and forever lost—forgotten, or junked in the nearest landfill.

History still teaches

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History is an amazing thing, especially as one ages. It is why watching the History Channel is incredibly popular with older adults. They have lived through many decades of events

Decisions, decisions

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I hate it when I go to the grocery store to buy stuff to eat. I enter with this grandiose idea of buying healthy foods for the week. I suppose

'A Jug of Wine . . .

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...a Loaf of Bread - and Thou.” It’s a line made famous by poet Omar Khayyám in his “Rubiayat”, over nine centuries ago. Bread and wine have not only been

A respite if you please

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September…the first of the “brrrrrrrr” months. Although it is usually warm in Texas until Christmas Eve, most of the country begins to have time off from hot weather. Labor Day has passed and the unofficial beginning of fall, really Sept. 21, has arrived. It is also a break from the relentless holidays of the early and mid-year before the beginning of the “big” ones.