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The Story of My LIfe

Tell my life story in 45 minutes. How difficult could that be? After all I’d been an eyewitness to every, single event. I knew the entire cast of characters. I was intimately familiar with the good,…

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Library busy with holiday happenings and more

Winter doesn't officially begin until December 22, but I'm sure you'll agree it's starting to feel a lot like winter. Right about this time of year is when I most enjoy cozying up around the fireplace…

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ARE CELL PHONES DANGEROUS?

I know most of us don't want to hear this, but the evidence is mounting that they are potentially very dangerous. Numerous studies are starting to show a link between cell phone use and brain tumors,…

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Emotions Bubbling Up

It's Thanksgiving weekend, and emotions are bubbling up. Holiday traditions bring memories of family and friends, many no longer with us. Football games and Black Friday promotions increase our levels of anxiety and competition. Those without…

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2011 Gifting Guide for the Intermediate Gifter (Part 1): The Trending Year

Hot cider and brandy. Check. Stacks of mail-order catalogues rising like geomorphic formations wherever you work and live. Check. Sense of rising dread and an emotional response to the phrase "Black Friday" akin to the phrase…

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Beauty in Everything

It had been a month since we had seen each other. Now we were traveling across the island in his van. Dark, puffy clouds created amazing paintings in the sky while red and yellow leaves formed…

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Books for cooks

Next week we will start to pull all our holiday and entertaining materials to display. These items will be on display from late November through early January. It's the time of year when friends and family…

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The 'Worm' That Could Bring Down The Internet Conf*#%!@&er

Halloween has come and gone, children are off their sugar highs and onto their sugar blues, and on the Internet roams a malware beast more scary than Frankenstein, vampires and Darth Vader - computer users run…

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Only a Full Moon

As I watched the full moon rise on the eve of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of this century, I became captivated. There were no other celestial bodies obscuring its…

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Survey Says...

The results are in, the Plan is adopted, and we're looking forward to starting a new year with a new five-year Strategic Plan. A survey was launched in February to seek input from community members about…

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DIABETES

Diabetes is on the rise. The latest reports say it has increased 90% in the last 10 years. Nearly 24 million people have diabetes and another 57 million are pre-diabetic. So what is diabetes and how…

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MITICH

TMI – Too Much Information - involves too many details of a personal, intimate, or taboo nature; and I've experienced far more TMI situations recently than etiquette should allow. However, I have also encountered something far…

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Recruiting for Reading Buddies Program

The library is now recruiting volunteers and participants for its 2011-2012 Reading Buddies program. This literacy enrichment program matches community volunteers one-on-one with elementary school-aged students to help foster a love of books and lifelong reading…

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PURPLE RIBBONS

As is typical with teenagers, the two girls chattered non-stop as they approached on the sidewalk. Then, without missing a single syllable, they stopped abruptly at the light pole about 50 yards ahead of me. The…

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