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Fending Off Cougars in the Age of Divorce

            I have a bunch of kids and I homeschool and I pretend to be a writer so I stay busy.  Ipso facto, the age of divorce kind of snuck up on me.  Having lived some life, I knew a...

How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?

            One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of pictures of smiling men in striped jump suits in my social media feed.  There was such joy in the pictures!  My heart was...

25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird

My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen it on SpongeBob so it must be so. We found out that some squirrels do hibernate, but many don't. Which is why they spend all summer hiding food away....

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