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This week, I’m working in Miami, and I think I’m becoming Cuban. I’m tooling around town on my off hours in a small, green rental car with a pretty respectable stereo system, sharing Cubano tunes with the world (“Half my heart is in Havana…”) Most of the lyrics move too fast for me to translate the Spanish. So, I have very little idea what the songs are about but the rhythms are nicely syncopated.
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Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t play favorites. Anyone and everyone can fall victim to it. However, research has shown that some ethnic groups may be more susceptible.
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Everybody brings food when someone dies. It’s the one thing the grieving family needs that others can provide. Since there is so little one can do at a time like that, food is always welcome. Funeral food is always comfort food – casseroles, cakes, wonderful stuff like that. And the smart people provide it in throw-away containers!
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Since Spring, America has witnessed the pursuit of social justice that seems to rival that of the 1950s and the 1960s. The magnitude of the unrest is hard to ignore. The only way to not know what is going on is to intentionally not pay attention to it. Ignoring the response to injustice in this case may be worse than ignoring injustice in the first place. The injustice being sought in the streets is important and requires and deserves attention. There is another level of injustice occurring every day in America that we are largely quiet about. Illiteracy.
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Hurricane Laura is behind us now – but the memory will not soon be forgotten.
Read moreThis story is about a little beige colored poodle named Luke. He belongs to Lois Carver of Grand Saline/Fruitvale. Luke is the most extraordinary little animal I have ever met, maybe because no one has ever yet told him he is a dog!
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It feels like just yesterday school abruptly ended in the early days of COVID19. In reality our students have been out of school for almost 6 months.
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