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My favorite hymns

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In my youth, we were split between two country churches, Church of God and Church of the Nazarene. In each church, the congregation and choir singing hymns together was a large part of the Sunday service. I looked forward to singing hymns at the top of my lungs but always dreaded the impending sermons.

Electoral College, still useful?

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Perhaps the Founding Fathers were as brilliant in creating the electoral college as was previously thought.

Beginning in 1789, after being ratified by the states and after a brief stint with a confederacy of the states, the Constitution of the United States of America came into being.

It is at this time that the Grand Experiment of America really began. While it may not be the first time a representative republic was tried, it did establish a new paradigm of how that republic chose its representatives.

How things have changed

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In almost all public men’s restrooms -- airports, truck stops, stadiums, convenience stores -- there are now diaper-changing stations. Because dads are certainly just as capable of changing diapers as moms.

Hair Angel

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When our friend called, she was dashing to her house for a change of clothes and preparing to follow an ambulance carrying her husband to a nearby hospital.

There was a collective groan: “Oh noooo….”

We have all endured family emergencies, and we know that in the throes of heartache and illness, normal routines become difficult and logic is illusive.

We assured her—because we believed it to be true—that the medical facility would simply keep her husband overnight to adjust his medicine and monitor his blood pressure.

Only at two times do we grow

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While we like to boast about getting better and evolving, the times humans actually grow, according to some sociologists, are limited to two times. Not just twice in our life

Safe driving unsafe driving practices

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I love living in a smallish town. We have everything we need here; places to eat, places to shop, entertainment and choice of living spaces. One thing I will never

Trailer monkeys - fact or fiction?

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I was long haul truck driver in the twenty years before I retired. Sometime after 9/11, I happened to hear a couple of truckers talking over the CB radio about

It's a mad, mad world indeed

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Some people weren't allowed to go somewhere

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Oh the irony of life-long haters of Israel and Jewish people, called anti-Semites, two Democrat Representatives, the first elected Muslims to Congress, had their trip to Israel disallowed by Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.

Do unto others

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Some days, when I’m not sure how everything has gone so terribly wrong in this country, I find myself focusing on the image of the ruler that the Coca-Cola Company gave me when I entered first grade in my small town of southern Alabama.

I liked that school. It had wide hallways and bright classrooms. I loved the sprawling oaks on the playground and the coldest water this side of Alaska that came from the water fountains.

I loved reading about Dick running.

I enjoyed looking for Jane to see Dick running.