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Advantages of Disadvantage

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There was a time when a legless man would only qualify for the Paralympics. Oscar Pistorius, who had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old, is hoping

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The View from the Pine

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Paul Shirley is not, and likely never will be, a household name... Well, not for his basketball skills anyway. Sure, he's played for some of the top teams in the NBA -- the Bulls, the Hawks, the Suns -- but he's not

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Wednesday

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You WILL Remember

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It's no secret that the American population ain't getting any younger, and the older we get, the more important it becomes to think about the things we'll leave behind. There are the tan

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Digital Distraction

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You know the billboards that flip to another side every minute or so? Those make me a little ill; there's one on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, and I find it super distracting. Turns out that's kid stuff; huge

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I Have to Write HOW Many Pages?!

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Did you write a senior thesis in college? Waaaaay back when I was a college senior, it was an optional project for the folks who wished to graduate with honors. It's kind of a blur in retrospect, but I do remember consuming an inordinate amount of...

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<strike>Killed Blog Posts</strike>

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Every now and then, I'll write something on this blog that causes much eye rolling (unusual because I have perfected the eye roll), and a big fat DELETE from Scott and Sarah. It is amazing, frankly, that anything I

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