Mrs. Klapisch’s cat was feeling a bit off so she took it to the veterinarian. The doctor had her hold the animal on the examining table as he touched and gently squeezed it. He then walked slowly around the table, all the while looking back and forth, back and forth. When he was done, he…
The word loyalty means 1: the state of being loyal; fidelity and 2: faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation. Some stores, airlines, banks and gas companies have what is sometimes called “loyalty cards”. We earn points that when we accumulate enough, it entitles us to free merchandise or trips. Would we be…
It was a very historic day, April 22nd, 1970. After demonstrations in the streets, auditoriums and classrooms that involved over 20 million Americans on topics from clean air and water to endangered species Earth Day was conceptualized. Twenty years later Earth Day became global with Canada becoming one of the 141 countries joining in on…
There was a time when my kids were little and either my wife and I would ask how much they love us. It was so cute as they would spread their arms as wide as they could get them and say, “That much!” And sometimes they would do it without even being asked. How cool…
In some parts of our lives or another fear is something we have all had to deal with. It was the Pulitzer Prize winning American author and humorist Dave Barry who wrote, “All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears–of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the…
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