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Sooner or later, the millions of us for whom the flesh is weak must grow up or die young – but not without the dream of just one sinful habit that is actually good for us.
BILL HALL
Europe has had its Draculas, its abominable snowmen and its even-more-abominable inbred royalty, but North America has had its not-quite-so-abominable Bigfoots, its pony wolves and its race of human giants.
BILL HALL
I confess that when I see news reports of two men getting married to each other or two women, I don’t understand the attraction.
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The “mother-in-law cottage” has become the “granny pod,” a small, private dwelling for a family elder in the backyard of a younger family member’s house.
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The old folks weren’t exaggerating when they told us they walked miles to school through waist-deep snow drifts.
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We once had a stupendous cat named Sterling who probably should have been named Tuna because that was the central thread of his life. He was a canned-fish addict.
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Your pity is misplaced if you have been hoping that someone will invent a “cure” for baldness. If you want to cure something, cure the abnormal crop of hair on a mature man’s skull.
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Most people have probably heard about the women’s movement that erupted years ago out in the open, but they might not know about the undercover part of that march toward freedom – or perhaps I should say the underwear part of it.
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They have been called the young indestructibles, young adults in the prime of life who are pretty darned sure they are immortal and don’t need medical insurance.
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I received a call from a reader one time who was hot under the collar that Mormons had posthumously baptized her dead son.
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English is a moving target. Like all languages, it never stops changing. Words drop in. Words drop out. The longer you live the more words you need to retire because they are unknown to newer portions the population.
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When our first child, Stacy, was born, I happened to buy a tape recorder and accidentally discovered a startling aspect of a tiny baby’s little lungs.
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Sooner or later, every fertile female and male on the planet practices some form of birth control.
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Even aged, arthritic fingers can peck out an email to a grandchild. And it’s physically easier than grappling with a pen and paper.
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