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By John Bill Martin Staff Writer Hi handsome. My name is Rose. The first day of a new college year our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to
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We were dressed and ready to go out for the New Years Eve Party. We turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet and
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Many of us over 40, WAY over 40 or hovering near 40 are quite confused about how we should present ourselves. We’re unsure about the kind of image we are
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By JOHN MARTIN Don’t take each other for granted because all we really have is each other. Read this and do what you think would be the right thing
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As a lifelong English teacher and coach of numerous academic bowl teams, I’m always on the lookout for proper English usage. We ran across this once while studying for an
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I envy Kevin (not his real name). He thinks God lives under his bed. He was praying out loud in his dark bedroom one night and I stopped to listen,
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A first grade school teacher had 25 students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the first half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come
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By John Bill Martin My late father had pretty traditional views when it came to politics. As one who survived the Great Depression, he thought Franklin D. Roosevelt was sent
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