As the recession drags on and charities, the arts and houses of worship struggle to find financial support, I think of all the money we burned during ...

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Nothing goes to waste in the creative process, I continue to discover. On a larger scale, nothing goes to waste in life if pressed through as grist fo...

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    Steven Covey has his "Seven Habits." During the past few days I have found myself mentally organizing seven key "essentials" to do eac...

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I think it is a bit of a stretch to expect one man, even with considerable power, energy and vision, to "fix everything" that plagues us as a nation. ...

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Revolutionary Road, starring Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet, is a flawless yet dangerous film. Flawless in its dialogue, cinematography, musical ...

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Let me get ths out of the way first, to the dismay of some of you: I just don't have it in me for American Idol anymore. Not that I was ever a faithfu...

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I was driving alone the other day and perusing radio stations in the process. Suddenly I caught the snippet of a disk jockey's reflection on one of Na...

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 finally watched the film The Bucket List last night, and dissolved into sobs at the end as Morgan Freeman's character Carter was laid to rest. T...

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