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In the culture I was raised, your mother is the most important person in your life. Oh, don’t get me wrong, dad was just as important, but he was working, and it was mom that had the after-school snack ready for you when you got off the bus in the afternoon! Of course that calls…

Everybody else was squirming. They were obviously having a hard time with the information and seemed to rather have been elsewhere. But I was at peace. It just made sense to me, I guess.

It’s true, men don’t like following direction. This came home to me the other day as I was assembling a small table for our living room. There weren’t that many pieces and the assembly “seemed” straight forward so I dove right in. That is until I had to connect the last piece. It wouldn’t work.…

You see it in every restaurant bathroom you go to: “Employees must wash their hands before returning to work.” I’ve even seen detailed instructions in bathrooms as to how to wash one’s hands properly! In 1546 Italian physician and scholar Girolamo Fracastoro first suggested that unseen “germs” were the cause of infectious diseases, and the…

  “Ladies and Gentlemen, Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!” With that announcement, the “Thrilla in Manila” was underway, probably one of the greatest professional boxing matches ever. It seems we humans have an ingrained “love” of fighting,