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7 Monday tasks to make your entire week a snap

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<p>Plenty of noises bring joy to my ears: a baby giggling, a song featuring a catchy hook, clear rushing water moving over a rocky...

Series prompts time set aside for new challenges

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<p>I can’t get Country Music, the latest PBS documentary by Ken Burns, out of my head. It’s been a week now since the last...

On the verge of giving up

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“I’m done gardening,” I grumpily say to my husband, who just finished the mowing I had started the previous day, and was also drenched...

Butterflies face big challenges to survive

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“If you whisper a wish to a butterfly, then give it its freedom, the wish will be taken to the Great Spirit and granted.” ...

Butterflies face big challenges to survive

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<p><em>“I</em><em>f you whisper a wish to a butterfly, then give it its freedom, the wish will be taken to the Great Spirit and granted.”</em></p> ...

No matter how you stack it, some still prefer paper

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Every morning I engage in a ritual on the verge of extinction: I walk outside and bring in the morning newspaper. There...

Concern over e-cigarettes warranted

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Are e-cigarettes becoming the next public health hazard? Increasingly, health officials seem to think so, and in early September the Centers for...

No matter how you stack it, some still prefer paper

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<p>Every morning I engage in a ritual on the verge of extinction: I walk outside and bring in the morning newspaper.</p> <p>There...

If lawmakers were treated like teachers

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By Mary Beth Schneider TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana’s legislature sets the rules for how money for schools is divvied up. Lawmakers determine...

50-year retrospect prompts classmates to question their lives today

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Who were we 50 years ago? Who are we now? These are questions my mind has been wrestling with since last week when I...