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Guerrilla Aging: Faith and Spirituality

October 24, 2014

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  In the deepest places of our being, we tend to look at meaning beyond ourselves. We may know that our life expectancy is a finite number of years, but this doesn’t answer why we were put on this earth to begin with. We may know that cellular deterioration will be how most of our […]

Running for Her Life

April 30, 2014

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We live in a world that has always contained both the best and the worst of which human beings are capable.  Across the ages, as we utilized technology for the good of mankind, we utilized that same technology for its destruction.  The Nazis will be remembered for many things, among them the industrial genocide of […]

Becoming The Guardians At The Door, a guest post by Peg Schulte

January 21, 2013

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Peg Schulte, the author of Peg-o-Legs Ramblings, describes herself as “an insurance agent, married, and mother of 2 college students who engages “in the struggles of daily life in a small town in Illinois” and who writes about “daily life from the Everywoman perspective.” I would describe her slightly differently: Peg is a woman who […]

The Way. For Real.

August 28, 2012

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Sometimes, marriages, even when they don’t last, give you family that does.  My Always Brother-in-law Bob is memorable for many reasons. He plants a mean vegetable garden and rides an even meaner Harley.  Bob has a friend who used to be a high-powered sales-rep.  He took a year off from his job to do charity […]

My Annual Letter of Commitment With Myself

January 3, 2012

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Caution: The following is a serious post. For those followers of my blog who prefer humor, read no further. Just hold your breath and a new post will magically appear tomorrow which will make me sink to new lows as a human being and will make your life worth living again.                                                                                               ***** Many years […]

The Day I Shook Hands With the Dalai Lama

September 29, 2011

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Monday, June 14 1999. Jerusalem.  The Dome of the Rock, sacred to three of the world’s major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. First consecrated by the Israelites, the site was where Solomon erected his temple. It was revered by Christians as both an Old Testament site and because of its place in the life and […]