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Is it true?

Is it true that the Apostles were the first OPEC and that they declared Fridays and Lent meatless times to increase their share of the fish market? And will I go to hell for even asking this question so close to Easter? Well, if I do, at least I won’t go alone. I have a whole cabal of young cousins who apparently find this a fascinating question to debate via e-mail. And with each successive missive I receive I realize just how much I really do like them and am so proud to be related to them. I just don’t

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Baby Birds and Bird TLC

I’m assuming that anyone who knows me knows that I am a bit crazy about birds…all birds, every kind, shape, variety and sound. God gave them the gift of flight and I think I’ve always been a little jealous about that.

Anyhow, I volunteer with a group called Bird TLC that provides rehabilitation for wild birds here in Anchorage as well as education programs with birds that cannot be released.  And with spring just around the corner, we have something called Baby Bird Season upon us.

Baby birds who have lost their home or their mom for some reason are

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It’s unanimous

April is Child Abuse Awareness month. I was on a call in radio show this morning called Talk of Alaska to discuss this topic. It was unanimous. We are all against it.

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Be prepared

Everyone in the Anchorage bowl area should be prepared for a blizzard tonight since I’m having my studded snow tires changed out today. Sorry about that.

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Is it just me or….

Is it just me or does Tom Cruise just continue to get stranger with each interview?  And seriously, have they sucked out what few brains Katie Holmes might have had going into this fake relationship?  One is reminded of a certain 50s macho male star and his brief abortive marriage.

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TV shopping is not for the faint of heart

In the spirit of spending my tax refund at least three times over, I went to a store the other day to look at TVs. Since my current one is so small I have to literally pull my chair to within two feet of it to really see well, I figured I could go to the eye doctor or get a bigger TV. The bigger TV won hands down.  Much more fun than an eye doctor…no offense, Grant.

So I’m standing in the store staring at what looks like miniature movie screens when a very nice young man comes up

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Spent the day….

I spent the day at a journalism forum representing the Italian-Inupiat subset at a diversity forum.  It’s amazing how few of us there are.

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A musing on aging

Growing old doesn’t mean everything stops working…or, at least if it does, you thankfully don’t remember that it doesn’t because you can’t remember that it ever did.

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Seriously, who cares if my bra fits?

In the grand scheme of things, how important could that possibly be?  And yet I must go look for one that apparently will push/pull/shove/uplift/separate/and cover nipple dents in order to look proper when out in polite company.  Sigh…..

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When we were just kids….

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When I was young, and the Vietnam war raged, I made the most unlikely friend in a guy named Paul DuCharm. He was in military school with my cousin and was as gung ho a marine and soldier as you can get.  I was a peace marcher who sat in front of draft boards and marched on the Pentagon.  And yet Paul and I managed to find a way to be friends.

Then he went to Vietnam as a young marine, He died in less than 30 days.  Just more cannon fodder.  But he’s never been forgotten. And then, last

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