Trini-patriot coloured bug might be killed for sport by the uncaring.Photo by Padjo Planet Photography   I WATCH INSECTS GOING ABOUT THEIR DOGGED WAY, AND I WONDER:Who are we to think the road too long, the mountains too high, the valleys too deep and fraught with potential peril.    Then I have...

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IN SOME CULTURES THEY DO NOT BEGIN TO COUNT YOUR BIRTHDAYS UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE LIVED A YEAR.Thus, in those places, everyone will always be one year younger than someone else born the same year somewhere else. Don't you just love cultural nuance? So very interesting and ... practical...

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It takes a fine balance to stand this tall facing life's "lessons"THEY BURNED WOMEN LIKE ME AT THE STAKE LONG AGO.   So it should come as no surprise that I was burned -- as in Burn Notice burned -- out of my career in these purportedly modern...

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There's adversity. That's life.Some people act like, "No, not for me." But come on, really now?I think anyone who takes that perspective is saying other people don't matter; that whatever pain, strife, fear, undoing persons outside themselves are going through means all how zero."What's it got to do...

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Life and its beautiful uncertaintyYES, yes, it never fails ...Just when you start to get comfortable enough to go away from something new for a little bit, you come back and ... what in HEAVEN's name!?! (Forgive me, I don't normally put exclamation marks and question marks together like...

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Many women experiencing endometriosis pain have said it feels like being unrelentingly devoured by many feeding creatures IF YOU ARE A WOMAN chances are you have endometriosis. If you are a man, chances are you know women who have it. Yet, mention the word “endometriosis” and you’ll be...

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