I took up “running” after age 50, mostly because I don’t like exercising. I wanted a way to work up a health-enhancing sweat in as

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[Note:  For my post this week, I offer a slightly revised Thanksgiving Day meditation I gave some years back.   It is based on Matthew 6:19-36

If it snows in November, is it because folks are decorating for Christmas? So I have been told. But I would have to live in

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It’s not an infrequent occurrence that my friends will reference a song from the 1990s or early 2000s and I have no idea what they’re