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If you are a reader of either the books or newspaper column by Miss Manners, you may have noted that she uses a question and answer format: etiquette…
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Mostly, people hate change. Sure, there is the occasional insurrectionist who wants to overthrow the existing government, but generally, the bulk of…
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When you were a child, do you remember any place that you saw in your big ol’ geography book that captured your imagination? Other than those cowboys with…
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Let’s talk about talking. From early on in our lives, it’s a topic with which we all are fairly conversant, so there must be a lot to say. And maybe…
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Maybe you remember Andy Rooney, an essayist and commentator on CBS’s 60 Minutes? There is no way that I can compete with his voluminous eyebrows, but I…
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Often in these minutes, I relate light-hearted things. Not so much today. In the cold of the New Year, refugees are on my mind.During my working life,…
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“I wonder if I could do that?” Maybe you have had that thought when you have heard or read of some challenge that someone else has embraced. Well, I have.…
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One of Michiana Chronicles essayists, Jeanette Saddler-Taylor, regularly volunteers to answer phones during WVPE's membership campaigns. So, we’ve asked…
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Vices versus virtues: sounds like a sports team rivalry, doesn’t it?Sometimes when I get into the car on Sunday morning, I hear bits of the Catholic…
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Here we are in the heart of sunshiney, joyous summer. Here we are in the heart of hot, oppressively humid summer. If ever there was a conflicted season,…