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02/11/2012 11:16
So, is marijuana legal or not? Aren't people with advanced cancer and other painful conditions able to register to use it? Isn't that why so many ill people move here or to the other twelve states that have legalized marijuana use for select individuals?
Many of my friends know I spent years in...
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02/09/2012 21:27
The world over in every season, festivals abound if you know where to look. The Festival of Lights, of Roses, of Lilacs, of Beer...the list goes on.
We have the Festival of Nuts, oh so convenient because I live not more than two miles from Sierra Nevada Brewery.
The...
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02/08/2012 20:11
Awareness - Anthony deMello, SJ
I’m not the only one haunted by great questions. Lots of my friends are similarly afflicted with the will to wonder or, as my mother would say, to “wander” pretty far afield. (Mea Culpa, Mom). Many of my questions are of a religious/spiritual nature,...
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02/06/2012 19:31
In Illinois I used tollways; in California I drive on freeways, and I live under a flyway, which exist in many places but that I knew nothing about before moving here. In the North Sacramento Valley you cannot avoid the “highways in the sky” that birds of all kinds use. Millions of...
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02/05/2012 11:20
My mailbox is full of stuff representing every nook and cranny of my life. Mail has followed me through the years and the states, as if I have somehow frozen in time as the person I was (no, I can't make it to the event next week because it is two time zones away.) Requests on behalf of...
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02/03/2012 23:12
Little Matthew Erickson was recently born to a loving couple who live in Huntley, IL, where my daughter and her family live. Tests done when he was four days old revealed that Matthew has cancer of the brain. His parents have decided to try chemotherapy until he is strong enough...
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02/02/2012 21:01
Dudes and Dudettes, it is imperative that I share with you my California horoscope. If you are like me, not really believing, but reading them anyway, then this is an experience you do not want to miss.
I think you will agree, this is a horoscope to believe in – to aspire to! I am sure my...
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02/01/2012 13:02
John Kass' column in today's Chicago Trib features an old archival map of the US with the alleged "real" nicknames of the states. His co;umnTti
In Forget the Land of Lincoln: More Like the Land of Suckers, Kass speculates on the origin of one of the first of Illinois' "official" (snicker)...
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01/31/2012 09:34
My sisters, brother and I didn’t grow up with the childhood ideal of having parents who acted as if they loved us. I am not saying our parents didn’t. Especially our mother…well, she must have. The day to day stuff of parenting was beyond them, and they checked out early on...
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01/29/2012 21:26
NYC artist Ed Rath will be presenting a unique series of paintings this spring at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn. In this collection, trees literally take on human attributes and emotions.
Before I left on a trip to the Bay area this weekend, Ed and I reviewed his artist’s statement....
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