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Fatigue Is a Parent’s Worst Enemy (and Constant Companion)

January 26th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor An almost unavoidable part of parenting – unless, I suppose, you have a cadre of full-time nannies – is exhaustion, both physical and mental. Too little sleep, too few respites, and too little time dedicated to your own needs can all contribute to a state of deep fatigue that leaves you, [...]

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Tags: communicating, expediency, fatigue, mental, messages, parenting, physical
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Five Building Blocks of Positive Life Change

January 23rd, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor In my last post, I described how difficult changing your life can be and the four obstacles that you must overcome to achieve meaningful and long-lasting change. Yes, change is difficult, despite the “quick and without any effort” claims of motivational speakers and self-help books. The reality is that nothing of [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: courage, determination, emotions, epiphany, faith, personal growth
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Success Is Great!

January 21st, 2012

By Dan Miller If at first the jerks try to stop you, try again. Laura Dekker, a then thirteen year old young lady from the Netherlands, had long wanted to sail solo around the world in her twenty-six foot sailboat Guppy. Although delayed by Dutch officials she didn’t yield and was eventually able to do [...]

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Tags: around the world, Laura Dekker, Netherlands, record, sailing, teenager
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Four Obstacles to Positive Life Change

January 18th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor Change is essential for your growth and development as a person. Without change, you are assured of staying just the way you are and doing things just the way you have always done them. For some people, that’s a good thing; they’re happy and fulfilled in their lives. But for many [...]

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Tags: change, obstacles, personal development, personal growth
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“Know Thyself” Is the First Step to Life Change

January 10th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor The first step in making meaningful changes in your life involves gaining a better understanding of yourself in essential areas that impact your life. This self-knowledge can provide you with direction as you try to maximize your efforts at change. Self-knowledge can also help you be more efficient and focused — [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: abilities, change, personal growth, self-knowledge, strengths, weaknesses
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Vote For or Against Governor Romney Because He Is a Mormon?

January 9th, 2012

By Dan Miller Don’t we have better things to worry about? An opinion piece in the Washington Post authored by Ken Starr, formerly a special prosecutor and now the president of Baylor University, asked “Can I vote for a Mormon?” Were Mr. Starr a Mormon, the question might have to be rephrased: Can I not [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Christian, Constitution, election, LDS, Mormon, religion, Romney
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Football Games and Political Debates

January 9th, 2012

By Tom Carter I curse the evil forces that malevolently scheduled the Republican debate to coincide with the NFL playoff game on Saturday night. And I mean a serious curse — plague, pestilence, warts, boils, and collapse of their mutual funds! As a football fan and a political junkie, it presented me with an almost [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: debate, election, football, playoffs, Politics, primary, Republicans, satire
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Has Honor Become an Anachronism?

January 5th, 2012

By Dan Miller A few quaint vestiges persist and others are salvageable. In May of last year, I wrote an article about the University of Virginia Honor Code and charges that a student then about to be graduated from the School of Law had lied by writing a letter to the editor in which he [...]

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Tags: Constitution, honor code, liar, political lies, politicians, truth
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Motivation: The Drive to Change

January 4th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor According to the research of Dr. Anders Ericsson, motivation is the most significant predictor of success. In simple terms, Dr. Ericsson found that experts in many walks of life, whether sport, music, chess, dance, or business, had put in the most hours at their craft. He coined the phrase, “It takes [...]

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Tags: change, effort, goals, matrix, motivation, personal growth, success
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Air Travel: The Agony and the Ecstasy

January 4th, 2012

By Tom Carter I just got back from one of my frequent trips to Europe. I’ve checked out ways to get there other than flying on an airline. I could book a berth on a cargo ship, a fairly inexpensive way to cross the ocean. Then, from whatever port I end up at in Europe, [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: airlines, airports, Europe, security, smoking, terrorists, travel, travelers
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January 1st, 2012

Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2011

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Tags: Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas
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Writing the Way Home

December 20th, 2011

By Jan Barry Across America, a special gift is arriving at numerous homes this week. This gift is a new book by Warrior Writers titled After Action Review: A Collection of Writing and Artwork by Veterans of the Global War on Terror. What makes this book decidedly different from so many other gifts this holiday [...]

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Tags: After Action Review, photos, poetry, PTSD, veterans, Warrior Writers
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Let’s Declare Victory in the War on Street Drugs

December 18th, 2011

By Dan Miller Brother’s keeper? Big Government is no kindly brother; it’s a bully. Don’t devolve! Remember the Darwin Awards? They are said to be given posthumously to those whose irresponsible antics prevent them from continuing to pollute the gene pool.

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Tags: costs, crime, drugs, gangs, legalization, prison, prohibition, sale, taxes
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Christopher Hitchens’ Death and Conservative Blogs

December 16th, 2011

By Dan Miller As almost everyone living in the West and able to read already knows, Christopher Hitchens (1949 – 2011) died yesterday at the age of sixty-two. Conservative fairness toward and even appreciation of Agnostics, Atheists and others with whom many disagree has long been a conservative energizer. The extent of this ability to [...]

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Tags: agnostic, atheist, Christian, Christmas, Christopher Hitchens, conservative
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Another Death in the Family

December 13th, 2011

By Dan Miller Flash

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Tags: death, gait, horses, Paso Fino, piroplasmosis, riding, training
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In Memory of Our Girlie Dog Shadow

December 5th, 2011

By Dan Miller Shadow was a beautiful, intelligent and playful Akita. We named her Shadow because she followed us like a shadow. We bought her as a young pup and, like most young pups, she enjoyed chewing on furniture and otherwise being mischievous to show her displeasure when we left her alone for a few [...]

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Tags: Akita, anniversary, dogs, farm, finca, horses, Panama, ranch, Shadow
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Can Your Kindle Cause Mental Illness?

November 25th, 2011

By Dan Miller My wife gave me a Kindle reader for my birthday in June. Although she sought to do good rather than harm, I have become addicted to it and to its free collection of old classics. I should have known that this would happen. Even a year ago, it was written that The [...]

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Tags: addiction, dreams, e-reader, free classics, Kindle, mental illness
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At the Movies: Rising Up Down South

November 23rd, 2011

By Jan Barry The myriad marches, sit-ins, camp-ins and other protest demonstrations sweeping across America these days didn’t spring up out of nowhere. Such actions against entrenched injustice were honed in the civil rights movement that shook up authorities in the 1950s and 1960s. That movement energized and inspired a groundswell of grassroots movements against [...]

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Tags: civil rights, democracy, demonstrations, dissent, environment, film, protest
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Planting a Peace Pole

November 18th, 2011

By Jan Barry Dedicating a Peace Pole at a community cultural center in Teaneck, NJ drew a small crowd of local officials, school children and war veterans the other day. The carved wood pole was dedicated at the Puffin Foundation, as a band from Thomas Jefferson Middle School played and adults took turns exhorting the [...]

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Tags: activist, NJ, peace, peace pole, Puffin, Teaneck, war
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