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    • Do You have Room in Your heart?

      Apr 05, 2012 12:00 am

      Dancia

    • Financial Fitness/ Credit cards

      Apr 05, 2012 12:00 am

      Susan Graves

    • 03-14-COOKING-2012

      Apr 05, 2012 12:00 am

      Chicken Quiche

      1 (9-inch) unbaked pie crust (made with unbleached flour)

      1 cup finely cubed cooked chicken

      3 ounces grated Edam cheese

      1-1/2 cups milk

      Dash nutmeg

      1/2 teaspoon salt

      1/8 teaspoon pepper

      1 tablespoon onion flakes

      3 eggs

    • What I've Learned

      Apr 05, 2012 12:00 am

      I was watching a movie when the power went out. In the silence, I heard gun shots.

      I opened a window and listened, staring out at the night. Cold air bathed me as I strained to hear. There it was again, a sharp crack that reverberated through the winter air.

      After ten years in the Army, including combat in the first Iraq war, I know what gunfire sounds like. Whatever was going on, it couldn't be good.

    • What I've Learned

      Mar 29, 2012 12:00 am

      There has been a lot of horse manure written about Dean Benedetti, and the record should be set straight.

      Benedetti did not stop playing the saxophone because, being white, he realized he would never be black. Benedetti was not a drug dealer. Benedetti did not give up the saxophone when he heard Charlie Parker play and then follow Parker all around the country like some kind of groupie.

    • What I've Learned

      Mar 22, 2012 12:00 am

      Recently, I ran across a link to an article entitled, "20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong."

      Even before clicking the link, I had serious misgivings. The double negative made me narrow my eyes. I knew what the author was trying to say, but his wobbly way of saying it gave me pause. If people are getting mistakes wrong, doesn't that mean they are doing things correctly? If he could be so sloppy in his title, his list of 20 mistakes was probably going to be more amusing than useful.

    • What I've Learned

      Mar 15, 2012 12:00 am

       I, like millions of others, had my tonsils out as a child. This was a lousy idea.

      We need our tonsils. They are part of our immune system. Sure they get inflamed. That's their job.

    • What I've Learned

      Mar 08, 2012 12:00 am

      Throughout history, what has killed the most people? An easy answer would be stupidity. Another would be war. Then there's bad eating habits, tobacco, alcohol, and the automobile.

      Add all these causes together and they don't match the number one killer.

      Throughout history, most people have died from diseases spread by mosquitoes. Among those diseases are the big three: malaria, dengue, and yellow fever.

    • What I've Learned

      Mar 01, 2012 12:00 am

      They were called the poor man's air conditioner. I'm referring to those wonderful, triangular vent windows that cars used to have.

      At some point, car designers moved away from vent windows, touting the new, sleeker, non-vent window look. A pox on all their houses.

      Vent windows were my salvation.

      As a child, I suffered from profound car sickness. On the Garn Scale, which wouldn't be developed until years later, I must have rated at least half a Garn, though I wasn't in space.

    • What I've Learned

      Feb 23, 2012 12:00 am

      The Kit Kat Bar jingle, as you may recall, says "Give me a break, give me a break, break me off a piece of that Kit Kat Bar."

      The score lines in Kit Kat Bars are stress concentrations. That is to say, places in a material where stress is concentrated and cracks or breaks are more likely to occur.

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