Category: Life

What we want to hear

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” Judge Taylor in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, first published in the United States on this day in 1960. Harper Lee wrote that statement more than fifty years ago. Before Cable TV, before 24/7 news, before the Internet, before Twitter, …

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Happy Birthday to Me

  You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. American journalist and author, Dave Barry, was born on this day in 1947. None of us is as young as we used to be. Yours truly included. Today in fact. That’s another story. But we all know that age really has little …

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