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Central Elements of my Personal Values as Captured in Sayings and Quotations

‘To thine own self be true and it follows, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.’  [from Shakespeare’s Hamlet] This quotation came to my mind early this morning, far too early in fact … Continue reading

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Men in Pink: American Football, From a Woman’s (Semi-Anthropological) Perspective

Although I watch a fair amount of American football—bonding with my husband, remembering my father, thinking of my brother—I do find that there are some oddities on the football field (always, but perhaps a bit more so this year).  The … Continue reading

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Our Tar Paper Shack

When I was a little girl, we lived in Bloomington, Indiana, where my parents were both enrolled in Graduate School at Indiana University.  We lived in a trailer, in a trailer park peopled primarily by poor and relatively uneducated workers … Continue reading

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