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Semantics in Relationships

 Perhaps we can call this a rant rather than an article.  But it has been on my mind a long time and writing has long been a vent for frustrations.    It starts with my rather patchy social...

0 comments    relationships dating friendship
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Adventures in EMS: Close to Home

I have always had a certain kind of contempt for drunk drivers.  To me it was a high ranking crime.  Partly because of the act itself being so deplorable, but also because, in my job, I see the gory...

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This Family Thing

I should have known as soon as I heard about my friends' marriage.  Undoubtedly it began before that, but it was my first concrete evidence.  Every wedding of every friend before, I had privately greeted...

3 comments    change married single
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How To Visit A Doctor

1--I am not a doctor.  No comment within should be taken as doctor's advice or substitution for medical treatment. 2--This article is intended as a tutorial on how to utilize a doctors visit.  It does not...

1 comment    doctor health care symptoms
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Adventures in EMS: Slowly Dying

There are many tragedies to encounter in EMS.  This weekend alone two terrible events took place in the districts I work in; my friends and family were EMT’s for them.  In one, a young man crashed his...

0 comments    death medical dying
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Adventures In EMS: Sim Lab

Half of EMS is training and practice.  So while half of the medical supply industry is products, the other is training tools.  One of the coolest training tools to come out is the Simulation Manikin,...

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Serpent Worm

IntroductionDracunculus medinensis is classified as belonging to the class Secernetea, subclass Spiruria, order Spirurida, superfamily Dracuncluoidea, family Dracunculidae, and genus and species Drancunculus...

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The Book Turned Into Movies Genre

Watching 'Angels & Demons' the other day got me to thinking about the books that I have read that have become movies.  It is a commonly held belief by readers that movies are notoriously worse than the the...

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Wedding: From the MOH

For the uninitiated, MOH stands for Maid of Honor.  A little tidbit of information I did not know a few sometimes short and sometimes long months ago.  For many women, the wedding is the pinnacle of...

1 comment    wedding dress bride
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Beautiful Boise

I've lived in the Boise area for much of my life. Growing up there, I had little interest, wanting only to move far, far away. I saw Boise as a hick town full of hick people. Then, on graduation, I moved...

0 comments    outdoors city idaho
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