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What Happened to the Telemarket Vigilante?\ title=58

What Happened to the Telemarket Vigilante?

I like to think that I'm a reasonable, if not "normal" person.  I work toward maintaining a 600+ karma score, even if I can't keep that other score there. When things go wrong, as things inevitably will, I...

0 comments    life cell phone social issues
How to Find Your Psychic Powers\ title=71

How to Find Your Psychic Powers

When my grandmother Sylvie was twelve, she pulled a coat and boots from the foyer and lugged them upstairs to her oldest brother Loy's room. There, she demanded that he get dressed and take the parlor quilt...

2 comments    life how to history
Barefoot in the Chollas\ title=58

Barefoot in the Chollas

As I write this, there are two great horned owls calling. I've stood between them many times to hear her sound a soft, alto, "hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo" and a breath later hear his sharper, quicker, three note reply....

3 comments    humor science coyotes
How can we change hunger and homelessness in the U.S.\ title=61

How can we change hunger and homelessness in the U.S.

I was drawn to respond to the question of why hungry and homeless people live in the wealthiest nation in the world, and how can we bring forth change. As I tried to prod the ideas into place, it became clear to me that unless we can answer these...

4 comments    advice relationships education
Rattlesnake Stew\ title=63

Rattlesnake Stew

When somebody nearby says "oh, rats!", I stop whatever I'm doing to look for them. Old training dies hard and some old rats die harder. I live in their homeland. Not the other way around. The they I'm...

2 comments    humor desert life rat nest
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