Month: December 2008

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Dec 29, 2008

Fourteen hours with Dale, Jr. and the pit crew

I have the privilege this week of writing the column from the little house on the prairie. Well, it’s actually my parents’ log home on the Kansas plains, but this

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Dec 22, 2008

The Gift of the Child

It’s a law of nature that the greater the darkness is, the more you need a light. Each day, it seems, brings more grim news of job losses and economic

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Dec 15, 2008

Winter ‘bugs’ bring amendment to family charter

The good news today is that winter is here. With it has come that glorious season of Advent, bringing a heavenly hope to a world battered by fear and uncertainty.

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Dec 08, 2008

We need more “Pink Think” around here

Growing up in a family where women outnumbered the men three to two, life seemed pretty fair and balanced. On my father’s side, there were 19 cousins, 12 girls and

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Dec 01, 2008

Criminal or not, you need fresh underpants

Being a survivor is a good thing. And that’s what we are, having survived a five-hour road trip with seven people packed like mackerels in a tin can. Any mother

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