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There are not many places you can go where you can put your complete trust in total strangers to the point of being completely vulnerable. One such place is a place no one wants to visit. Of course, I’m talking about a hospital. I recently had to go in for an out patient procedure. It’s

Just when we thought it couldn’t get worse. It did. Supporters of Donald Trump, including disillusioned voters, as well as, Republican party leaders, could tolerate the verbal abuse of women, but new revelations of actual alleged sexual assault is apparently too much. Trump calling women “pigs” and “slobs”, and even the audio tape from 11

It began in the early morning hours of April 6, 2002 when the phone woke me shortly after one o’clock. It was my mother. She said, “I’m at the hospital. Your father died.” What I didn’t realize at that moment was that it was the beginning of my mother’s years of a long time dying.

Its name says exactly what it is, “The Hardware Store”. It’s in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey. It’s a throwback to a small town hardware store. There are four or five pull in parking spots that allow you to park just feet from the door. They have some big stuff outside like the trash cans and the

Atta: “We have some planes. Just stay quiet and we’ll be ok. We are returning to the airport.” Boston Sector: “American 11 are you trying to call?” Atta: “Nobody move, everything will be ok. If you try to make any moves, you will injure yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.” This is the audio

“Why do you want to be president?” It sounds like a very basic question of someone who is thinking of running for president. CBS correspondent Roger Mudd asked Senator Ted Kennedy that question on a CBS Reports on November 4, 1979. Kennedy paused, then said,”Well, I…um…” he continued with a long rambling answer that gave

“He has no decency.” The words of Khizr Khan talking about Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention. Khan is the father of Captain Humayun Khan who was killed in Iraq in 2004. Khan was calling out Trump for his discrimination and ranting against Muslims. He accused Trump of never sacrificing anything for his country,

The song says “Summertime and the livin’ is easy”. August is the height of summer vacation season. We call it the “Dog Days” because the dog star Sirius rises at the same time as the sun. The ancient Greeks figured it out. August used to be called “Sextilis” because it was originally the sixth month on

The two weeks of Republicans and Democrats telling us what’s wrong with the country, who is to blame, and how they are going to fix it have left us with the tale of two countries. As the two gladiators climb into the ring for the ultimate prize, they will be fighting not only for our votes, but

One of the big stories to come out of the bizarre Republican Convention was Melania Trump being accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama, of all people, in her speech on the first night of the convention. It just snowballed and got more bizarre. First an out of work Tampa journalist discovers the word for word lifting of