Say you’re enjoying a calm afternoon cruising on your Bayliner when a fire breaks out. You might have a long…
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I have come to understand that sometimes we experience good things in our lives because we make them happen —…
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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God … . –Brenda Ueland “Feeling…
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Clare Booth Luce made this observation in her catty satires on New York society, but PATRICIA CHAPIN WALLACE of Oak…
While I have become discriminating about the e-mail messages I spend time reading, I always open forwards from a childhood…