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It’s been a while since I have blogged. As much as I would like to be blogging regularly, I just haven’t had the time. I’ve recently added a nice plugin for iphone support, perhaps that will allow me to access the page more often and update my few readers left.
Tonight though- I’ve got a dilemma [...]

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Last week I took the opportunity to reflect on both our calling in life, and fate. What is our purpose? What should we be doing with our gifts and talents? Is there a reason to all this insanity? If you didn’t read Leo Tolstoy’s short story below, I’d recommend it. I’d also suggest you [...]

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What follows is a paper I wrote for an Elected Officials Class with the Honorable Elizabeth Furse. I did not intend for it to become so reflective, but since it did, I share it with those interested.
“Politics is a strong and slow boring of boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience [...]

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… I was traveling the country in a motorhome with a high school friend. We had just arrived in Port Wing Wisconsin. We would end up working there for two weeks while we struggled to figure out the meaning of the attacks. Here is my journal entry from September 13th, 2001- when I finally was [...]

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