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Jason Hall

Good News and Bad News

The campaign is finally over! Whether your guy won or lost, it’s time to take a deep breath and relax, maybe even womens viagra mend

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Kristin Detloff

It’s Time to Find Your Featherbed

A couple of months ago I logged-on to find the following e-mail appropriately shuffled into my high priority inbox: “How you do keep your hope? 

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Books
Emi Parker

From the Belly of the Dragon

“Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?” This is the question pondered by Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner at a forced-labor camp in

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Edmund Mitchell

We Need More Death

Mary Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour  You will die. A friend of mine sells life insurance. He told me that every time someone new

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Mary C. Tillotson

poverty of spirit

A few months ago, I quit the full-time job I’d landed right out of school, married a college senior, moved four states away, and planned

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Rebecca Frech

The Borrowed Baby

  ***Warning:This is a Crying Post, Grab Your Kleenex*** Three years ago, we lost our Bernadette half-way through pregnancy to a knot in her cord.

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J.Q. Tomanek

6 One issue votes and others

The one issue voter is dead.  Today’s elections are no longer about a single issue.  Here is a list of One Issues: Abortion Euthanasia Embryonic

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Ryan Kraeger

Clothe the Naked

“The Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, whie Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him.

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Fabiola Garza

Perks of Embarrassment

After almost a year of ballet I’m still super horrible. I never realized how physically demanding it was, how literally every muscle in your body

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Bonnie Engstrom

Special Needs Etiquette Part II

Below is the conclusion to my conversation with Teri and Amanda about special needs etiquette.  You can read Part I here. How do you want

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Sr. Lisa Marie

Needed Instruments of Peace

In our current election cycle, perhaps more than any other in the last forty years, we have two candidates for President with stark, contrasting views

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Bernard Toutounji

Death. A Part of Life.

It turns out that I am dying. One day, in the not too distant future, I will be dead. It may be tomorrow or it

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Bonnie Engstrom

Special Needs Etiquette

As my son laid in the neonatal intensive care unit with promises of severe mental and physical disability, I stood at a Wal-Mart, watching an

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