(audio version available at the end of this post) I have to confess, my family is comprised of lovers not fighters. Of my father’s generation,  he served during Vietnam, but in the Mediterranean, safely aboard a destroyer thousands of miles from the nearest Viet Cong. His brother chose a different route, breaking his own arm to […]

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(audio version available at the end of this post) My mother was a teacher of speech and drama (back when we filled those roles in public schools . . . before our obsession with math and science). So it is no wonder I notice when people use certain words too often. These days the word literally is […]

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