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Diary of a Middle-aged Menace by Jerry Balderson

It’s been a cement mixer of a week and the season finale of Parks and Rec is on in 90 minutes, so we’re going to zip thru this week’s epistle like Sherman going through Atlanta. I just read today that the IRS thinks Americans can get by on $534 a month after food, clothing,...
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Dark Shadows by notthatCindyCrawford

As a kid, I used to run home from school, up a big hill, in order to watch Dark Shadows.  This is the show that generated my lifelong love for vampires, werewolves, witches, warlocks, time travel, ghosts, parallel universes, and nearly every other type of supernatural and fantastical character and event possible. The show...
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For Your Health & Well-being . . . by Linda L Baily

Improved Circulation Can Help to Undo Nerve Damage for Neuropathy Sufferers.  It begins with tingling or numbness in the extremities and sometimes escalates to loss of motor control and, at its most serious, internal organ damage.  Peripheral Neuropathy or PN is rooted in genetics, but the symptoms and complications are usually the result of...
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Diary of a Middle-aged Menace by Jerry Balderson

My opening statement here is:  Proverbs 26:11 Marilu Henner has said more than once that she remembers everything.  Obviously not, since she’s said it more than once.  I’ll take that challenge.  Ok braniac, how many RBI’s did Zoilo Versailles have in his MVP year of 1965 for the Minnesota Twins? In a stunning turn...
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Being Healthy While At Work by Sofía Sánchez

Being Healthy While At Work Being healthy at the workplace can seem like a big, insurmountable challenge. How does one stay healthy when the pressure of the job is on? With something that consumes anywhere from five or more hours of someone’s day, it is essential that anyone working in the workforce keeps up...
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Diary of a Middle-aged Menace by Jerry Balderson

Let me ask you a question and take a few weeks if you need them.  What disease does a cured ham have?  And here’s a bic lighter raised to the genius in Maple Grove, Minnesota who stole a ham from a grocery store, then returned it to get his money back. He proceeded to...
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Pregnancy and Parenting: Limit Your Stress by Gaining Knowledge and Planning Ahead by Amanda Emerson

New parents have so many concerns. The pregnancy itself can be enough to make anyone question their sanity. If something goes wrong during pregnancy or childbirth, the little one could be facing major setbacks for the rest of his or her life. This is why it is so important that expecting parents take every...
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Diary of a Middle-aged Menace by Jerry Balderson

Willie Nelson is having an erection in Austin this Spring.  Now that you know, don’t get too worked up, it’s a statue.  I see the point, statues are hard and stiff and stone too…and old. Mike Lupica said on his radio show this week that Jeter and A-Rod are now old enough to be...
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck a review by Sarah VanderBok

Pippin IV explores the life of Pippin Héristal, an amateur astronomer suddenly proclaimed the king of France. Unknowingly appointed for the sole reason of giving the Communists a monarchy to revolt against, Pippin is chosen because he was rumored to descend from the famous king Charlemagne. Unhappy with his lack of privacy, alteration of family life, uncomfortable housings at the Palace of Versailles and mostly,...
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For Your Health & Well-being. . .by Linda L Baily

Massage Helps to Ease Pain of Fibromyalgia.  Though diagnosis is complicated and treatment options limited, Fibromyalgia a very real problem – and thought to be affecting anywhere from three to six million Americans – most of them women.  The condition, which is characterized by widespread pain, can be incapacitating and is often accompanied by...
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