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Joseph Xavier Martin
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The Annual Physical
The Annual Physical One of the rights of passage, into the golden agers club of humanity, is the ritual of the annual physical. Every year about this...
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Saturday's Rant
“ Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to,” is a well known quote of American humorist Mark Twain. It occurs to me on any number of...
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You Can't Go Home Again
“You Can’t Go Home Again” You hear the words often enough, “You can’t go home again.” Novelist Thomas Wolfe is most often credited with the phrase...
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The Pull Up Society of Left Turn People
The Pull Up Society of Left Turn People As late as the middle part of the twentieth century in America, we were a nation of small towns with mom and...
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The Goofy Good Will of Families
The goofy good will of families We were sitting in our kitchen one morning drinking coffee and reading the daily paper. “I got a call from my sister...
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