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• Taking a Summer Break
  on May 21, 2013
  Decided that this writer needed a summer break to decide if I will continue writing Catalpa Grove.  Have been encouraged by my wife to start pursuing some creative writing opportunities and decided a three month hiatus would be good time to ch...
• NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out And So Do His Critics
  on May 10, 2013
  When NBA basketball player, Jason Collins came out last week my first reaction was "so what," as it seems to be a trend that everyone is jumping proudly out of the closet.But then, one has to realize Collins coming out is a big deal to that gay black...
• NBA Player Jason Collins' Coming Out, Is a Ritual that Hopefully Ends in the Next Decade
  on May 8, 2013
  When NBA basketball player, Jason Collins came out last week my first reaction was "so what," as it seems to be a trend that everyone is jumping proudly out of the closet.But then, one has to realize Collins coming out is a big deal to that gay black...
• Diva Kathy Lee Gifford Circulates "We Like Matt Lauer," Petition
  on Apr 27, 2013
  Desperate times require desperate measures and that is the case of NBC trying to rescue the reputation of Today Show host Matt Lauer.Now obviously this writer is not privy to the ins and outs of the intrigues of the politics of news making, but after...
• Charging Boston Bomber with Federal Crimes is a Dangerous Precedent
  on Apr 22, 2013
  Like most Americans, I followed the arrest and capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and would have lost no sleep if the young man had been killed. Some news reporters tag Tsarnaev as a teen influenced by his deceased  his 26-year-old fanatical br...
• Senator Marco Rubio Wants A Study to Understand Violence
  on Apr 15, 2013
  The interview of Senator Marco Rubio on Meet the Press was like watching a kid engaged in a high school debate.   He was well-rehearsed.  Rubio knew point by point what he had to say or not say and how to avoid answers by saying  a lot...
• Three Stories About the Private Lives of Children and the Celebrity Parents Who Love Them
  on Apr 12, 2013
  Today, I am recommending 3 articles to read.   Though two articles deal with two young men and their families accepting their homosexuality and the other is about a family dealing with their son who committed suicide, they are not being r...
• Fired Rutgers Basketball Coach Rice Signals End To Tolerating Bad Behavior
  on Apr 8, 2013
  Many years ago when I taught high school, I coached the cross-country team.  For those of you who do not know much about cross country, it is an event when a team of 7 runners compete against other team of 7 runners along a 2.5 mile route genera...
• Target Department Store Eliminates Offensive Manatee Grey From Color Choices
  on Apr 5, 2013
  Several years ago I finally tipped the scale and became officially obese. I'd like to blame my weight gain on a thyroid problem. But I have to be honest---come clean as they say in some 12 Step Programs---that I am just powerless over pastries and si...
• Jody Arias, Beverly Hills Women, Swamp People, Celebrity Gossip Have Made A Lot Of Money for Television
  on Apr 3, 2013
  　 About a week ago I was too lazy to change the television station and television producer Andy Cohen was interviewing his Bravo cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Admittedly, the all too blond cast of older, mean, caddy, rich women...

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