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“There is no such thing as a stupid question.”   You have probably heard that before right?  I remember hearing it a lot from teachers in school.  But is that really true?  Are there...

“What do you want for your birthday?” How many times have you heard this?  And what do you say in response?  The answer probably depends on your age.  I think the older we get the more...

Let’s talk about the weather.  Why not?  Everyone does.  It is hard to meet very many people in any given day when the subject of the weather doesn’t come up.  People like to talk about...

Ready for a big question?  Try this one on for size.   What defines you? I told you it was a big one. Think about it for a minute.  What kinds of things would you say that would let...

Here’s a huge understatement:  Babies are cute.  There’s just something about seeing a tiny person that makes most of us smile.  I am sure someone has studied this in great detail. ...

People fight over the silliest things.   I remember once in college when I was an usher for a concert.  It was my first time ushering but I quickly got the hang of it.  You just looked...

When my son was in elementary school I made it a habit to visit him at lunch often.  There is nothing like sitting on too-small stools at a long table with a bunch of grade school kids.  You...

We all know the story of the Wizard of Oz.  The movie was one of the first I ever remember seeing.  The Wicked Witch of the West scared me as a kid.  With her army of Winkies and her air...

Why do we hide eggs at Easter?  Where did that come from?  I did some digging and found that during the Medieval period the Lenten observance did not allow for the consumption of eggs. ...

I remember having a home economics class in middle school.  For those of you who don’t know, this was a class that set out to teach young students such skills as cooking and sewing.  I loved...