One of my goals for 2018 is to learn at least one new thing every day.  Learning something new every day is not difficult. Being aware...

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"It's been a while" is a bit of an understatement.  It's been nearly a year since there's been anything new publishe...

In the year 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote some advice still worth following in 2017:  " Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with y...

As the year 2016 played out, posts from this blog became intermittent and then just dwindled away. I began spending less and less time on so...

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