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Thoughts on fascination.

My grandmother, Olive Ruth Hewett, grew up in Central Illinois and would have been in her late teens/early twenties during the Great Depression. One of my most enduring memories of her (she passed away on the same day my son, Nicky, was born about six years ago) is how she never left food she had [...]

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The search for meaning in all this.

On one of the many cable channels available to me, I saw an all-too-familiar kind of ad: the make-millions-on-the-internet-without-really-working-all-that-hard-at-it type ad. I’ve also seen, recently, the pay-off-your-mortgage-and-be-debt-free-without-sacrifice ad and the three-steps-to-buying-foreclosures-with-no-money-down ad. And I thought: Isn’t this kind of how we got into this mess? Hasn’t this all happened because a lot of us started [...]

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A Looney Tunes moment.

It was one of those slapstick moments we all find ourselves in. My cell phone was ringing, and I could hear it, but I couldn’t find it. It rang, and I thought, that’s my cell phone. It rang again, and I thought, uh oh, it’s not in my pocket. Sounds like the other side of [...]

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