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How to Reduce Your Carbon / Shopping Footprint: Keep Capitalism Alive

With all the concern about keeping (or getting) the planet healthy and our impact as humans on this earth, I think it’s time that we address another issue facing humanity. Our Shopping Footprint. Not...

1 comment    online shopping target
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Reincarnation vs. Rising Again: What's the problem?

David asked me, just as I picked up the phone. I hadn't even had time to say hello. "Why?" I'd learned over the years never to just answer David outright. He always had an ulterior motive in catching someone...

7 comments    christianity reincarnation dead
Poor Toby is really just trying to do his job. Might be why I relate to him.65

The Office: What shows can't you stop watching?

Lately I've been watching the TV series "The Office". By watching, I mean, I watch one or two episodes a day, in sequence, and then when I get to the end of season five I just start over. I almost have all...

2 comments    life the office dwight
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My Brother's Keeper

“Beth, please keep an eye on your little brother,” my mother said. “I have to help get the food ready and your dad is going to move the car closer to the church.”             “Okay,”...

7 comments    wedding church canada
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How to Get your teenager to fold laundry

“We’re going to become nudists,” I announced to Bill as I slammed the laundry door shut with my foot because my arms held the laundry basket.             “That’s the worst idea I’ve...

7 comments    underwear laundry nudist
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There's a new Harry Potter Movie?

"There's a new Harry Potter movie?" I asked, putting the portable phone receiver on speaker so I could continue making dinner - soft tacos- without holding my head at an awkward angle. I had a hard enough...

6 comments    books harry potter chopped onion
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How Not To Win the Lottery

"Beth!" my mom called from the living room. "Why haven't you turned in this lottery ticket?" "What lottery ticket?" I covered the spaghetti sauce pan and went to see what she was talking about. "This one." ...

8 comments    beer millionaire bookmark
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Landscaping Ideas: I Never Promised You a Rock Garden

"What do you mean, remember when I said I wanted a few more rocks for the garden?" I spoke quietly into the phone to my husband, glancing at my boss's closed door. "You said you needed more rocks," Chuck...

4 comments    landscaping ideas rock garden
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Vigilant vs Vigilante

"No, you can't bring a gun to school." I set down my mug of hot chamomile tea and reached for the remote. "Not only is it illegal, but you don't have a gun." "But the news says that there's a threat to Texas...

3 comments    texas high school pizza
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My wife gave me anthrax: Now what?

"What do you mean, you think you've got anthrax?" I asked my brother, David. Could it be true? If so, I didn't see how his having anthrax would benefit me. No one would want to interview the sister of the man...

8 comments    health symptoms effective
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