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Comeback King
I like Peter Parker (aka Spiderman), because I resonate with his story about overcoming failure. I love movies about defeating great odds, like Rocky, Rudy, or Hoosiers. I enjoy stories about real...
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Push of Encouragement
I took a walk through a park recently and saw something I fondly remembered. Lots of young parents sitting on benches talking while their kids played on a nearby playground. Infants, toddlers, and...
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An Epidemic
I was watching a documentary on the building of the Panama Canal and was amazed by the challenges the builders faced: they had to figure out how to move tons of dirt and rock, redirect a river, and...
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The Hinge of History
A little over a year before I was born, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite on October 4, 1957, and the modern Space Age begun. History was forever changed. Many nations rushed to...
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A Timely Word
Francis Collins earned his Ph.D in chemistry at Yale and then went to medical school. During his training rounds visiting patients, he encountered an elderly woman at the end of her life. She often...
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Pride
I enjoy reading the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. One favorite lesson is found in The Horse and The Boy. Bree is a talking horse and he thinks Shasta (a boy) is in need of some training. But the...
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Noise
We live in a noisy world. There are noises designed to sell, scream, plead, deceive, seduce, and annoy. The 24 hour news-sports-entertainment cycle leads to a cacophony of sound that is difficult to...
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Pretending
Imagine you work part time at a restaurant near campus and someone attempted to pay for their meal and drinks with a credit card. You follow store policy and ask to see their driver’s license for...
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Common Sense
I remember my grandmother saying, "common sense is not so common" when we heard about goofy stuff people did that got into the newspaper or on TV. You would think in an educated and highly...
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The Unethical Guy
Someone I went to college with became known as the “The Unethical Guy.” He was smart and savvy, but always tried to cut corners on assignments, said the rules didn’t apply to him, and ignored...
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