By Rev. James L. Snyder
Gary Hemsely was running for some county political position †I’ve forgotten which one now. What I do remember is that he was a member of my church at the time.
Sometimes a pastor can get between the Rock of Ages and a politician without trying too hard. That seemed to be my predicament with Gary. In all things political, I have maintained one basic philosophy: Ask not what your country can do for you, just get out and vote Read more…
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Tickle Your Funny Bone by Virginia Reeves
Practicing humor can lift tension, reduce stress, diffuse confrontation,
improve communication, and enhance your relationship with others in any
group. It can also increase productivity, learning ability,
cooperation, teamwork, and profits while energizing you and others.
Wow! Why wouldn’t we want to incorporate even more of this no-cost
action into our daily life? Here’s more benefits:
Humor is the shock absorber that eases the bumps in life and laughter is
a vaccine for the ills of the world Read more…
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Å“Power LunchÂ: Around the table, two men and a woman check you out as you talk. You know your firm can double their sales; after weeks of presentations to their flunkies, you want to clinch the deal. They, however, loathe the prospect of having to make a decision far from the safe buck-passing womb of boardroom and E?mail.
The waiter arrives at your table, asking the usual "Can I get you something from the bar?" Yes, yell your guts, a round of Cosmopolitan Martinis would do us a world of good Read more…
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Summer’s almost here and it’s that time. Yes, you need a new bathing suit.
No, no, no, now come on back here. That’s it. Just sit down and relax. Take a few deep breaths. C’mon, breathe in through your nose, now out through your mouth. Good girl.
I understand completely. Why, the mere thought of the Å“Suit Ritual used to send me running to the pantry for a container of Betty Crocker’s Rich & Creamy Frosting. Of course, that was before I knew how to buy a bathing suit Read more…
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If the creek was up, we had to park the car next to the gravel country road, then take our shoes off and walk the long stretch to the barn (wading through the water, as water covered the road up past the barn). The water was knee high … if you were the oldest kid. So, the two youngest got carried.
While that might have sounded like fun, one was barefoot, trying to keep clothes clean, holding one’s shoes up in the air, stepping lightly, not knowing what one would be stepping on next Read more…
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by Cathy Goodwin, PhD
Lonesome. When Ms. Angelou moved into a designer house in California, she says, nothing worked. Her pictures didn’t look right on the walls. Cakes fell in the oven. Curtains fell off the rods. The house, she concluded, hated her. And it wasn’t much consolation to realize the house hated her husband, too.
What I want to know is, how could she tell? Let’s face it, most houses hate their new owners. They have adapted to the rhythm of one family and resent being sold Read more…
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Here are some maintenance log entries from a major airline “ or so the email says, showing the problems reported by pilots (P) and solutions recorded by mechanics (S).
It’s probably true. You couldn’t make these things up.
P: Left inside main try almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main try.
P: Test flight OK, except autoload very rough.
S: Autoland not installed on this aircraft Read more…
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A PINT OF YOUR BEST "BUGBEAR" PLEASE
– Toorah For Those Tittilating Tag-Names that Come With Your Favorite Grog!–
Fascinated as I am with names, I happened upon an article in our thrice-weekly newspaper devoted to tempting the tastebuds of tipplers at a local "Beerfest".
It seems that our cozy castle (has more than a few educated swillers from nearby colleges and universities, not to mention a slew of seabees (from the naval base next door) who can’t get enough of those special suds Read more…
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Imagine, just for a minute that the real world started operating
like the Internet does.
First, we’d have a choice of two brands of everything. Instead of
dozens or even hundreds as we do now. Want soup, it’s either brand
A. or brand B. Need a new car, again, A. or B. (feel free to
substitute IE for brand A. and N for brand B.)
Sure sounds like things would be simpler, and if things went as they
should, both A. and B. brands would be doing everything in their
power to make their product/services better and less expensive then
the other guy Read more…
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IS GOD A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN? AND OTHER CULTURAL ANOMALIES
The amazing thing about contemporary American culture is its predisposition to organize itself into neat little categories. This "pigeonhole syndrome, " referred to by some as PHS, (not to be confused with PMS), is responsible for much of the stress in our society today.
We even categorize this stress, enabling us to compare our stress with people we meet. Some fear they will one day meet someone with the same kind of stress as they have and will not know how to label him or her Read more…
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