What if you were there in Chicago two months ago when four gangbangers  beat their well-mannered schoolmate, Derrion Albert, to death on the street. Would you have stopped it? Do you really believe yourself to be capable of stopping such a thing? Or...
Topics: Psychology

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This is gonna sound a little jacked up considering the fact that I have several friends that are mail carriers, but… With the holidays approaching, I’ve seen a lot of blogs and articles about the etiquette of tipping your mailman.What exactly.
Topics: Advice from me to you

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I didn’t know for sure that I had broken my arm until about six years after the fact. It was actually the fourth time that I’d broken it, badly enough that I had a second elbow and my lower arm was folded in half. I carried my arm over to the.
Topics: Family

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Inspired by a reference from Adam Carolla, as I was listening to the podcast on the way in this morning, I fondly remembered one of the greatest family moments of my childhood.It was a beautiful summer night. I was about eleven years old. And Mom had a.
Topics: Family

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I’ve thought long and hard about whether I should even write this down or not, but I hope it serves as a motivator to the young NCO’s tired of their leaders’ bullshit.The first time I realized we’d never win another war was the...
Topics: Military

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