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The book "Tuesdays with Morrie" told the very touching story of a man named Morrie, a retired philosophy Professor, dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The book was written by a past student of Morrie, who made it a point to visit his mentor every Tuesday and gain Morrie's pearls of wisdom before he died. I read the book and thought the story was...

My heart really goes out to those children from Central America that are flooding our country. I know conditions in their home country are deplorable. But these children and their families are being exploited by criminals who are profiting from this. They are convincing the families of these children that an amnesty law that was passed to allow children who came here before 2007 to remain also...

The unemployment rate fell in June and that is a good thing!There are reasons for the decline some of those reasons are readily apparent and some of those reasons are below the surface of the data and need to be ferreted out. The political messaging and rhetoric from all sectors of the political spectrum continue to use the jobs report, the unemployment rate, the overall economic recovery and...

Souvenir. From the French word meaning to remember. We collect souvenirs throughout our lives. Occasionally we take them out from their dusty boxes, the scrap books we carefully constructed, or the photo albums we put them in, and look at them and remember. But the real souvenirs are the ones that are not physical, not the ones that we can actually see, but the ones that made us who...

What seems like a lifetime ago, I had a very close friend, Jesse. He was everything a person should be. He was kind, good natured, brilliant, athletic, and very handsome. But to me, he was a great pal, someone I could talk to and would keep all my secrets. We cared about each other in that very special way that happens only every now and then with guy-girl friendships. We were getting...

When my nephew was about two and a half, we began no notice that he had a peculiar habit. He would arrange his cars in size order. When you changed the order of the cars, He would quickly change the cars back order from smallest to largest. He would persist in this activity, and get increasingly upset each time you changed the order of the cars. Soon after, we began to notice that everything...

Crumpled bits of paper Filled with imperfect thought Stilted conversations I'm afraid that's all we've got You say you just don't see it He says it's perfect sense You just can't get agreement In this present tense We all talk a different language Talking in defense My childhood friend and stylist to the stars, Phillip Bloch, wrote an article to his deceased...

Had a supposable Digital T.V. update done to my T.V./Phone system I have only one carrier.The unit they installed to replace an in line amplifier where phones and T.V. come in the house strongly resembles a digital recorder player with Phone interconnect as well. Like no amplifier I've ever seen.If the individual is a rouge phone/ tv technician he has access to way more information off of the...