The antique clock bonged the half hour as I squirmed in the big overstuffed Victorian style chair. My six-year-old clock reading skills were not yet good enough to calculate exactly how long I had been sitting there. But it was too long. I looked again at my McGuffey Reader. Dick, Jane and Spot stared back […]
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In sports there are many references to coaching trees. Bill Parcells, Bill Walsh, and Phil Jackson are examples of successful head coaches who mentored assistant coaches who then went on to be successful themselves. Comedy has its own version of the coaching tree; let’s call it the comedy tree. Exhibit A is Sid Caesar’s Your
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A trending video on YouTube was posted by someone who set up a time lapse camera to record the hatching of four robin eggs. Instead, the camera captured a snake gobbling up all four eggs after the birds left the nest temporarily unguarded. Some viewers were horrified at seeing Nature at work, which to me
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Okay, so maybe that headline is a bit optimistic. Or a lot. But it is possible, even if it is a long shot. I think the odds are not as bad as many people argue. NFL quarterbacks get too much credit and too much blame for any team’s success or failure. Denver Post columnist Mark
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Now that the dust of primary season is beginning to settle, the fall campaign between Hillary and Trump is shaping up. The matchup, which I predicted months ago, will be brutal and nasty on a level we haven’t seen since the 1800s. But I am now convinced Hillary will win the presidency in a landslide.
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And that’s how a girl gets pregnant,” Teo said in his thick Polish accent. Alan nodded his assent as he pushed his hair out of his eyes. “That’s cannibalistic,” was my reply. My eleven year-old mind meant to say primitive. Surely human civilization had a better way to reproduce than what I had just heard
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