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Rating Your Playfulness
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Rating Your Playfulness

By Tim McCarthy

September 3, 2024

A spiritual writer I admire, Regina Brett, wrote “play like you mean it” in her recent blog and it got me thinking about rating my own skills for playfulness.  Score...
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Libraries are Raucous
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Libraries are Raucous

By Paula Poundstone

September 3, 2024

It’s funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech,...
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Growing Sideways
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Growing Sideways

By Noah Kahan

September 3, 2024

Song of the Month:  “Growing Sideways” by Noah Kahan Editor’s Note:   I love great turns of phrases, especially when the discussion is self-discovery.  This Noah Kahan song is his...
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A World Undone
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A World Undone

By G.J. Meyer

September 3, 2024

Book of The Month: "A World Undone" by G.J. Meyer Editor’s Note: My dear friend, Brian Bowers, enjoys many occupations.  One is working with the World War I museum in...
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Truly Funny  |  Father Norm Smith
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Truly Funny  |  Father Norm Smith

By Tim McCarthy

September 3, 2024

Truly Funny: Father Norm Smith New title for “Joke of the Month” since I’m going to keep doing true stories until I run out of them.  Fitting our “playfulness” theme,...
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The Doctor Is In
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The Doctor Is In

By Tim McCarthy

August 6, 2024

Alice and the kids have long teased me as the Dr. with no MD. Children of medical doctors often believe we are experts just by having watched our dads ply...
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Paradox
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Paradox

By Kai Cheng Thom

August 6, 2024

Paradox is where enlightenment is born—it’s not about resolving or conquering paradox by choosing one side; rather, it’s in the tension of more than one truth being true that a...
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Violin
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Violin

By Amos Lee

August 6, 2024

Song of the Month:  “Violin” by Amos Lee Editor’s Note:   This singer songwriter has been featured several times in this blog. Lee appeared recently at Cleveland’s House of Blues...
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Warren and Bill
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Warren and Bill

By Anthony Mc

August 6, 2024

Book of The Month: "Warren and Bill" by Anthony McCarten Editor’s Note:   McCarten is a playwright, known for “Bohemian Rhapsody”, among other movies. This seems to make his writing...
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Funny of the Month  |  Evvie and Jesus
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Funny of the Month  |  Evvie and Jesus

By Tim McCarthy

August 6, 2024

Joke of the Month: Evvie and Jesus Continuing the theme of family stories, my brother, Bill’s, wife, Evvie, and I went to pick up a Christmas tree for our family...
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Fear and Love
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Fear and Love

By Tim McCarthy

July 1, 2024

Paulo Freire said, “The opposite of love is not, as we many times or almost always think, hatred, but the fear to love, and fear to love is the fear of...
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Fear is Self-Imposed
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Fear is Self-Imposed

By Jocelyn McCauley

July 1, 2024

Fear is self-imposed, meaning it doesn’t exist, you create it, and you can destroy it. I love fear because behind every fear is a person you want to be. ---Jocelyn...
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Whipping Post
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Whipping Post

By Allman Brothers Band

July 1, 2024

Song of the Month:  “Whipping Post” by Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band Editor’s Comment:    Rest In Peace, Dickie Betts.  Betts’ most famous writing was “Ramblin Man” and while popular,...
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Demon Copperhead
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Demon Copperhead

By Barbara Kingsolver Editor

July 1, 2024

Book of The Month: "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver Editor’s Note:   (Thanks for the tip, Joe.)  Imagine someone believing they could update Charles Dicken’s famous “David Copperfield” and get...
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Funny of the Month  |  Bill in the Office
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Funny of the Month  |  Bill in the Office

By Tim McCarthy

July 1, 2024

Joke of the Month: Bill in the Office My brother, Bill, was the President of a local bank and nurtured the image at work…well-dressed, formal speech, everything in its place. ...
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Taking My Chances
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Taking My Chances

By Tim McCarthy

June 4, 2024

Last month, I wrote about working at the polls to investigate the reality of election fraud.  To those who suggested I’m naïve, I wrote: “I trust elections for the same...
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Being Human is a Guest House
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Being Human is a Guest House

By Rumi

June 4, 2024

  This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain...
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

By Jimmy Ruffin

June 4, 2024

Song of the Month:  “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” by Jimmy Ruffin, sung by Joan Osborne Editor’s Note:  Thanks to my friend, Jim Sullivan, for passing this on to...
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The Hunter
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The Hunter

By Tana French Editor

June 4, 2024

Book of The Month: "The Hunter" by Tana French Editor’s Note:  Here’s a new genre for you – “Irish Crime Fiction”.  That’s how this recently published work of Tana French...
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Funny of the Month  |  Favorites of Terry
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Funny of the Month  |  Favorites of Terry

By Tim McCarthy

June 4, 2024

Joke of the Month: Favorites of Terry It’s almost a year now since the funniest man I ever knew passed away.  Here are a few of my favorite things my...
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Election Integrity
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Election Integrity

By Tim McCarthy

April 29, 2024

What has been your personal reaction to the news that our election system is flawed? By 2018’s primary election, I had heard enough about election integrity that I decided I...
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