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Ruth: The Skeptic and The Saint

April 22, 2025

Ruth: The Skeptic and The Saint

While there are all manner of obstacles, disappointments and sorrows along the way, the end is redemption for each of the three.

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January 18, 2023

Do What Works

Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

January 11, 2023

Graceland

I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done.

January 4, 2023

Urgent!

Waiting to purchase an expensive item until there is a sale makes sense. Waiting to give until there is a special incentive does not.

December 28, 2022

The Dumb Tax

We all pay it either early on – or later. It always comes when we venture into areas about which we know very little and, typically, with people we do not know well.

December 21, 2022

Scrooge Repents

The envelope became the highlight of our Christmas.

December 14, 2022

Twist of Fate

Of course it’s hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.

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