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All of my lady friends take vacations. They’ve all been to Europe more than twice. They’ve been on multiple cruises. Some of them take several vacations each year. They grew up in families that took yearly vacations, usually a week at the beach. I keep wondering what a vacation is. When I was growing up,…

It can be truly amazing when you discover you’ve been wrong about a circumstance, an event, or a person. We can be so sure of our capable judgment when we’ve no idea that our view has been obscured, sometimes by filling in the blanks with assumed facts, or sometimes by faulty input that others have…

I suppose that many parents accidentally pass on less than idyllic behavioral traits to their children. Just look at the Royal Family of Great Britain for an example of how to screw up with the best of intentions. Anyway, we were certainly not royals, even though we still refer to “Mother” while doing the Queen’s…

I was in 4th or 5th grade the first time someone told me this, and it was Linda Rogas’s mother. She said emphatically that everyone was sent into this world with a purpose and a talent. Why did I never hear that in my home, in Church, or my Sunday School classes? That was the…

While each of us is expected to support him or herself in some way, not everyone is designed to be employed. It seems every entrepreneur I’ve ever known or worked for has been someone who simply couldn’t last long in someone else’s employ. For the most part, these are people with serious skills and creative…