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Time to rise above the anger

I remember riding the bus home from middle school when two popular girls sitting cross-armed in the back row decided to take aim at me. Cynthia and Sue. Those were their names. Cynthia was blonde and mean with a pebbly complexion and angry eyebrows. Sue was her taller sidekick with dry, stringy ...

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, ...

Responsible posting in social media

I have had several dialogues recently with different people about the Biblical topics of gossip, slander and bearing false witness and how they relate to social media postings. Here are the combined concerns and my basic responses.In engaging in “conversations”, one thought centered on at ...

Cooking my way through quarantine

Ever since our local mayor issued a COVID-19 shelter-in-place-and-go-completely-cocoa bananas order, my family and I have found ourselves cooking more than we have for our entire lives. We’ve even been following recipes and using the actual stove/oven thingy, much to the relief of our ...

Political tactics need pushed aside to focus on our health

Washington is not focusing singularly on this virus as the enemy. COVID-19, SARS-2 Coronavirus should be a unifying factor for our country. Our political leadership is not seeing this tragic pandemic as a way to help us move our public health response more efficiently and quickly to accelerate ...

Corononavirus should lessen resistance to vaccines

Imagine waking up one morning before too long and finding that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House health adviser who has become a household name in recent weeks, has made a surprise announcement.A vaccine for the coronavirus has been found. And itĢƵ effective. Come and get it!Given the ...