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What Do You Say To A Dying Person?
Abraham Lincon's deathbed Just finished watching “My Sister’s Keeper” with my wife and promised her, if she ever became like the mom, Sara, I’d tell her a thing or two and not let her get away with it. What I pondered most...
The Manhattan Declaration And The Joker
This is not Hugh O'Shaughnessy Sometimes the cynics are so ludicrous you can’t help but laugh. It’s the only thing you can do in the face of huffy and misguided rants such as this one: No one who surveys the statistics of abortion in ...
Brief Respite
Grandfather's Love I’ll be away from computers most of the rest of this week. My grandfather died last Saturday. He will be missed. A veteran of the Korean War, father to a large family, including my mother, and kindly grandfather who made ...
The Fall
Death The days dim and shorten. The winds build and sharpen. Death is everywhere about me as trees bid farewell to leaves that sheltered and fed them and grasses brown and say adieu to the mites who played about them. Fields dim and then burn with ra...
Kennedy To His Last Breath
Read Shattered China’s obituary to the man, the icon, here. I heard of Senator Kennedy’s death this morning, not from the news, but from a good friend I was sharing breakfast with. And he said he wished he could be as Kennedy was, To his ...
The passing of an Icon? Really?
Senator Kennedy has died . . . and all I can say is what a relief for the country. Sure, he is being labeled as one of the best Senators at working across the isle. Sure he is being called an advocate of the poor and needy (Do they really need anoth...
Matthew William Kelly Bedford
After 14 hours in labor, my wife Grace gave birth to the most beautiful baby boy. Matthew William Kelly Bedford is named after a dear friend of ours who was called home to be with our Lord not quite 1 year ago. I only hope that this little man will g...
My Thoughts On Michael Jackson
It’s been all over the place and most everybody has the same thoughts: the world has lost wonderful talent as it has lost Michael Jackson. Conservatives, Liberals, Christians, Heathens alike are, for the most part, mourning the loss of this ski...
Reality . . . two millionths of a percent.
So, the swine flu is going to kill you, right? Let me put this into perspective. Right now there are about 160 reported deaths from the swine flu world wide. This is not the number infected, but the number killed. But what does this number really mea...
Resurrecting Fido: Refusal To Grow
The story about the retirees refusing to allow their pup Lancelot to shuffle off this mortal coil when his natural life ended by ordering Lancelot Encore (cute puppy pictures), the first one-off, made to order, cloned animal, is interesting to me mor...
