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  While wandering around the Internet looking for that pleasant little visual, I stumbled across this fun, headline: . . . the best way to prevent death by Daylight Saving Time may be to make it permanent, according to Standard Time abolitionists. Death by Daylight Saving Time? You heard (read?) right. Yes.  Portlanders are on a roll. This… more »
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    I got a ballot in the mail the other day. On it were the names of people I’d never heard of and I was asked to vote Yes or No for each of them. To be fair, there was a page included with a one paragraph bio on each candidate. From this I… more »
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  I can’t find the origin of that statement — I’ve used it for over twenty years — and fear it may be lost. I’ll use it anyway. I sat down to write a post on last Saturday’s Women’s March, 2018.  Pictures and all.  Then, I read the New York Times’ story on the Women’s March,… more »
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This past Monday would have been the 89th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Born in 1929, the same year as my mother (sorry Ma; did you want to keep that a secret?), MLK could still be alive and productive today had he not been assassinated fifty years ago this April! He was just 39… more »
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For those of you fairly new to And So It Goes, I first discovered John McCutcheon’s song, Christmas in the Trenches, in 2013. It tells an amazing and long forgotten true story, one that I’m committed to sharing. I’ve been posting it every Christmas Eve since. I hope you’ll take the time to listen to the song and peruse… more »
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Who among us hasn’t been touched, in some way, by the snowballing power of the #MeToo campaign that swept through our lives recently? It’s impact has been so great, it has been chosen as Time Magazine‘s cover for “Person of the Year.” Here’s a paragraph from Time‘s cover story: This reckoning appears to have sprung up… more »
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Hate is on the rise here in America. I don’t believe anyone would argue that fact. As the Washington Post reported recently, “police departments across the country reported a rise in the number of crimes motivated by bias.” Hate eats away at my serenity and erodes the soul.  It’s scary. Alone, I feel rather impotent against… more »
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Today is the day before Thanksgiving (always the fourth Thursday in November), the most quintessentially American holiday I can name, right up there with July 4th (our Independence Day).  This day before Thanksgiving is traditionally a very busy day for those celebrating — whether traveling from afar or preparing the food — so I thank… more »
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  Well, it happened again. I choose an important and timely topic — the importance of maintaining a healthy skepticism — but, in the course of putting the post together, I veer off into another land. Could that have been what happened to Lewis Carroll? Plans were to introduce you to my favorite British philosopher… more »
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