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My mother, the essential worker

On the eve of my junior year in high school, my mother returned to the job she’d held before she became pregnant with me, at age 19, and married my father, who was also 19.At age 36, Janey Schultz was once again a nurseĢƵ aide at the public hospital in our small town of Ashtabula, ...

Beyond heaven, earth and hell

In a future book of mine I am titling it “Beyond Heaven, Earth and Hell”. Contrary to popular Christian thought, teachings and mindsets, Heaven, Earth and Hell will not last forever. We are still living in Bible Days considering the timeline of events as the Great Tribulation, future ...

HereĢƵ the fail-safe test for whether a political party is growing and strengthening or shrinking in size and prospects: Is that party spending its time, energy and effort seeking, recruiting and welcoming converts to its ranks, or is that party instead hunting down heretics within its ranks ...

Are you tired of the ‘new normal?’

I don’t know about you, but the next time I hear someone refer to the “new normal,” I think I might scream into my middle daughterĢƵ unacceptable new bikini bottoms that I plan to confiscate and turn into a coronavirus face mask. If adjusting my daily activities according to COVID-19 ...

Ever gotten the wind knocked out of you? Or been unable to breathe for even a few seconds?ThereĢƵ pain. ThereĢƵ panic. ThereĢƵ the desperation of trying to restore the vital equilibrium that keeps your heart beating, your brain functioning, and the rhythms of life intact and in sync with ...

Learning to live with corona hair

ItĢƵ high time Americans accept a first-world side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, and I don’t mean those blasted directional floor stickers I can’t navigate in the aisles at Walmart. No, I’m referring to male-pattern corona hair.At the risk of sounding like a narrow-minded, ...