Satchel Paige Quote – How Old Would You Be
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” – Satchel Paige
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Not the valedictorian
Danielle Shea, 22, was charged with trying to cancel Quinnipiac University’s graduation ceremony by calling in a bomb threat. Shea, police said, didn’t want her parents to find out she had dropped out and was pocketing their tuition money.
Read moreLoneliness and it’s toll on your health
Too much alone time can kill you. A study conducted by Brigham Young University found that isolation and loneliness are as bad for a person’s health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being an alcoholic. Researchers examined data from 35 years’ worth of studies on loneliness, and after accounting for participants’ socioeconomic status, age, gender, and pre-existing health conditions, […]
Read moreJoseph Addison Quote – But On His Own Side
“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.” – Joseph Addison
Read moreCartoon – Where all those “True Story” scripts come from
Cartoon – Slug Vacation Disasters
Poem – I Say A Prayer For You (By Narges Rothermel)
When I pile up cut tomatoes, red onion, and radishes on top of romaine lettuce, I think of the hands that picked, cleaned, packed, and loaded them on trucks, carried them to cold rooms arranged them on shelves. As I remember stories of my father, a new comer a child-laborer in another era in another country, I say a […]
Read moreCartoon – Nothing About Smoking
Cartoon – Back Hump Drivers
C.S. Lewis Quote – Make Him Happy
“Nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C.S. Lewis
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