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A play drive and a prey drive
Prompted By Training Pets
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Among the many heroes who emerged from the ashes of the Oklahoma City bombing in April, 1995, were three Golden Retrievers from Miami, Florida, with the unlikely names of Aspen, Maggie, and Brandee. The dogs all belonged to the Metro Dade County Fire Department and were also a part of the FEMA Task Force 1…
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You’re a good man, Charlie Brown
Prompted By Comedy
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Peanuts came in two varieties as a kid: one to munch on at the circus, and the other to devour in the comic strip by Charles Schulz. I liked the latter better.
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A moment of his own
Prompted By Short Fuse
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When Evelyn, an outfielder for the Rockford Peaches women’s baseball team, misses a throw to the cutoff player, manager Jimmy Dugan unloads on her in a string of very vocal invectives. Screaming, “Who’s team are you playing for?!” he reduces the young woman to tears. Evelyn’s reaction leaves a stunned Jimmy bellowing, “Are you crying?!”…
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Tinkertown and me
Prompted By Is Where I’m From Who I Am?
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A town can inspire and fuel dreams, usually without us realizing it until much later.
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A tale of wash day danger
Prompted By Laundry
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Trying to take his jeans out of dryer dubbed "the green monster," a young athlete's life is changed forever.
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Me, I’ve Lived in Dreams
Prompted By Daydreaming
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Dreams may not be real, but sometimes they can help get us through heartache. And sometimes they can even come true.
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The Living Lost
Prompted By Ex-Friends
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Some lost souls just don’t want to be found. For them, the span of their lives is judged not by the calendar nor the actuarial tables that insurance companies live and die by, nor by the average life spans computed by the American Heart Association. All of these objective measures of how long people may…
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Roger and Me
Prompted By Disunited States
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Understanding and respect can go a long way toward developing a bridge to peace.
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Finding a career amid the stacks
Prompted By Libraries
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How can a library chart your career path as early as childhood? No one was more surprised than me.
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Answering my own question
Prompted By Retirement
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Retiring to do what you want to do ... or are you already doing it by working?
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