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Francis P Church’s editorial, “Yes Virginia There is a Santa Claus,” became one of the most famous editorials ever written. It first appeared in the New York Sun and was printed annually until 1949 when the paper went out of business. I wonder what the response might be if the letter responded to by Mr.…
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It is a little-known fact that Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, his 587,287-word masterpiece, in its entirety while standing in line at his local 7-Eleven waiting to pay for his order of shashlik, borsch and bellini. It is a little known fact because I made it up. But he could have – that’s the…
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Halloween has come and gone. Thanksgiving is nearly upon us. A time to count our blessings and then move on to the “Big One” — Christmas. Since the movie begins with Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, my family has traditionally watched It’s a Wonderful Life just after the third helping of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day.…
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Much has been written about the exposure to secondhand smoking and even more about the harmful effects of TV watching on children. Nothing has been written about the effects of children being exposed to secondhand TV viewing – until now. It started innocently enough. My uncle and aunt would visit our home regularly…
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Halloween was scary when I was a kid, and it’s scary now. There. I’ve said it. It may be second only to Christmas as far as popularity goes, reality TV also appeals to a large number of people. That does not mean that Keeping Up With the Kardashians or the Real Housewives of New…
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Living on a street where thick stands of oak trees stretched upward to the point where the tops seemed to touch the sky, bats came out in droves in the humid summer nights and continued their feasting well into late autumn. The night that gave birth to the legend was a particularly warm Halloween. …
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This presidential election has turned into a B western movie, sort of a shootout at the D.C. corral. On the one hand we have a snake oil salesman peddling his miracle cures like a carnie barker running against a dance hall floozie who will sidle up to the bar and tell you whatever you…
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In 1986 Robert Fulgham wrote his bestselling book of essays entitled, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. These are his conclusions: “Share everything.Play fair.Don’t hit people.Put things back where you found them.Clean up your own mess.Don’t take things that aren’t yours.Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.Wash your hands before you…
The View From My Recliner 