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May your days be ‘mary’ and filled with fishing line

M ost people stock up on things like plastic storage bags, baking supplies and paper products around the…

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Opinion: Take care with ultimatums to determined wives

My husband loves me.  I know this because he told me as much the other day right before…

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Attacks against Christians not a surprise

There’s an effort underway to label anyone who isn’t supportive of same-sex marriage rights as a bigot who…

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O Christmas tree

The Horton Christmas tree has been purchased, erected and decorated. And by some miracle, nothing was broken or…

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Thanksgiving and Rockwell’s “Freedom from Want”

In January 1941, against a backdrop of world war, “new order” and fascist dictatorships, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt…

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Deer hunting can be a slog

It had been at least 10 years since I climbed into a tree stand before dawn. It’s been…

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‘Loud and proud’ pink building is hard to ignore

The Jackson Women’s Health Organization building is painted a loud-and-proud pink and stretches across a corner of prime…

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Nostalgia comes at a price

“Let me see it” is the oft-repeated line from my children as soon as the shutter button is…

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“I’m not ashamed” and Columbine’s Rachel Scott

I can probably count on two hands the number of times I’ve been in a movie theater in…

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Halloween not as evil as you may think

As we carved a smiling face into the orange flesh of a pumpkin, I didn’t give the origins…