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86Gift-giving at Christmas: It's about the people we love
Christmas is almost here and most of the buying is done, at least for all but the last minute scramblers who now have to venture out and face the last minute crowds. If you still need something, it's...
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70Women and happiness: Part two - The way it was and is now
Women and happiness: Part two - Whine, womyn, and thongs (a title used by Christine Rosin, 1990) *To see the first article in this series, click here: "Women and happiness: Part One -The way it was." As is...
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69Women and happiness: Part one: A series of articles on the way it was and is now
Women and happiness. Part one: The way it wasIn the 1960s, I was teaching school in Chicago. It was just about the time that the "women's feminist movement was getting started. I had graduated from college...
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75The other side of nothingness: A different perspective
Being in my seventies, I have decided that, since I am getting closer and closer to death, I must face that fact without fear. In the past, I have been afraid to even utter the word. I no longer want to fear...
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65Nothingness
So just how does it feel,the end of life?Not different from an ordinary day.And wondering, I let my mind go freeto conjure up whatever it desires.It fills with nothingness.I cannot seethe end of me.I cannot...
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66Hoax or scientific experiment gone wrong?
I find the question of whether or not parents, who include their children in their schemes to either make money illegally or get publicity illegally, disturbing and compelling. In the video here,...
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69Improvisation: That spontaneous thing that you do
to extemporize, ad lib, play it by ear, take it as it comes, make it up as you go along Simply put, to improvise is to make something up on the spur of the moment. That something could be just about...
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80High School Musicals: What I did for love
Note: Part of the title of this hub is the title of one of the songs from A Chorus lineWhen I went to work for South Shore High School in Chicago, years and years ago, I was assigned to teach general music,...
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68Retirement? ......I don't think so!
The life of a work-a-holic I love to work. Don't know where I picked up such a strong work ethic, but it seems like I've always been driven by it. By the time I was 12, I was running my own...
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91Appalachian foodways: Cooking ethics and traditions of a diverse population
Appalachia is a mostly mountainous area situated in the eastern section of the United States, It stretches from Alabama in the south to Pennsylvania and into parts of New York in the north. The people living...
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