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Tuning out the background noise

Don’t wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise. American lawyer, politician, and Virginian, George Mason, was born on this day in 1725 (died 1792). Honestly? I’m a little skeptical of that quote. No, not the sentiment, …

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A Hobbitty Friday

  Today is September 22nd, the shared birthday of Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo. I am reminded that I need to read the books again, including The Hobbit, and that, sometime over the coming winter months, I must watch the movies again…definitely excluding The Hobbit movies… I make no apologies. I’ve been a Tolkien …

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