Your Ducking Conversations Censored
All of us who have iOS (and a filthy mouth) and text, email or otherwise chat know how irritating it can be to have your colorful metaphors changed to “ducking,”…
read moreMortality – How will you be remembered?
No one can be sure how they will be remembered. It all depends on what you do with your life, who you touch and what the circumstances around your death will be. So my question to you is how will you be remembered?
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Fire and Ice – The Value of a Touch
Emotions are like seeds and you can choose to feed them or to kill them.
Emotions being what they are, cannot remain buried forever. They must reach, and grow to the surface eventually… Otherwise they can rot away at the very core of who and what we are.
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SVM Chronicles: December 5th
Thanksgiving is over and now the holidays approach. ‘Happy Holidays’ all the retailers say with their ridiculous marketing plastered everywhere the day after Halloween.
The Steel Van Man ChroniclesI would like to say that the holidays have always been a nice, happy time. Full of family cheer and old relatives visiting that we haven’t seen all year long. A nice fire burning in the living room as people laugh over a glass of thick delicious eggnog or hot …
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Inconsolable Loss – A Mother’s Story on the Death of a Child
Being a parent, it is perhaps one of my greatest fears that I should ever out-live my children. Children are a gift and a blessing, and some of us fight extraordinary battles just to bring them into the world. When a child is lost, it leaves a hole that can never be filled.
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I.T. by Day, Author by Night
“What makes you think that a Network Administrator can write a novel?” a friend asked me a couple years ago, well, an ex-friend. Any friend that doesn’t support your ideas isn’t a friend in my opinion.
However, it’s a good question. The truth is, I suppose any Network Administrator out there may not be able to, but this Network Administrator was going to do it, regardless of what people said.
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How to Handle Your Child’s Social Media Disaster
What happens when your child has been abducted by a predator and you don’t know who the predator is or where to look?
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Twisted Thursday – Coffee: Nectar of the Gods
I am a walking zombie needing my life blood, that which enriches my soul and starts my engine – my coffee. Why is coffee such a popular thing? Let’s look at the history for a moment.
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The Importance of Child Literacy
It brought back memories, memories of myself sitting by my grandmother’s fireplace in the house on the farm back in Loudonville, Ohio – on a winter day as the snow beat against the bay window in her living room.
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A Bee in the Jungle
The life of a bee A bee flys around, leaving its hive. Perhaps at first the bee simply follows other bees, because it’s really not sure about where its going…
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