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Wow!!!!!!! He comes across as the prototypical Wally Cox, if you are old enough to remember the TV character. Indeed, he sort of looks like him. Very modest. Humble. Soft

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Pictured Memories

How wondrous a stream bridge coveredBeneath blended greens bright red colored. Floating memories come and go As underneath rocky waters flow.

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A High School Reunion Moment

At my recent high school class reunion I had a vivid recollection of a past memory known as a  “Proustian moment.” Here is how Proust described his moment: No sooner

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Attitude Is Everything

An apocryphal story has been traveling across the Internet. You may have read or heard it: Two shoe salesmen were given a new territory on a Pacific island. Immediately upon

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Avoid Facebook Excess

To experience a balanced life AVOID FACEBOOK EXCESS. Facebook is more addicting than Oxycontin. More stimulating than cocaine. And sometimes more satisfying than chocolates and ice cream. But it can

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The Window of Time

Sometimes when we look back through the window of time we see visions of immeasurable joy. They are joys that we carry in our hearts, but to which we may

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Living Old, Loving Young

Upon my return for our 55th Lufkin High School reunion I wrote this ditty. (TS Eliot beware.) If a 1962 LHS graduate will write the music, the LHS choir will

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Ten Ways to Live Longer

Have parents who live a long time Exercise 60 minutes six times daily Have an optimistic personality = 55% lower risk of death Drink 3-5 ounces of red wine daily. 

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Happy Chemicals

Mind-body research (psychoneuroimmunology) has show that negative thoughts produce stress hormones. Optimistic thoughts cause the release of endorphins and other beneficial brain chemicals causing good feelings. What we think determines

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