Archive for August, 2009

In a few minutes I’m heading to a memorial service for the sister of one of my best friends. She passed away Sunday morning in her sleep, after a long bout with brain cancer. It’s funny how, sometimes, we can know someone for years and years and never really know them. I actually met her […]

As we start the day, we’re dealing with many terms that may not quite make sense from the weekend regarding health care. I thought I’d quickly define these terms so that we can look at what’s being said overall with a little bit more of an idea of what they might be talking about. Single […]

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Yesterday I was having this conversation with my wife in the kitchen, when I asked her where she had put the butter dish. She said she hadn’t pulled out any new butter, so she hadn’t used the dish. I asked her how she cooked the eggs then, and she said she didn’t use butter, she […]

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On this date in 1945, the last atomic bomb ever dropped on a race of people was released over Nagasaki, Japan. In an instant, anywhere from 40,000 to 70,000 people were instantly killed, with many more dying over the course of the rest of 1945 and later from radiation. President Harry Truman had to make […]

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I was reading a blog post earlier called Are Affirmations Useless on a blog called How To Have Great Self Confidence And Self Esteem by David Rogers. The premise of the post was this attack by researchers on the concept of self help books and whether they, or any type of positive affirmations, have any […]

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