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  • How did I get here?

    How did I get here?

    Did you ever stop to think, “How did I get here?”

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  • What makes us who we are

    What makes us who we are

    When I got out of the Army, I joined the National Guard in Mass because they offered free tuition for college. I took CLEP tests and skipped the…

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  • It’s been a while.

    More than a hot minute. Many, many months. Lots going on and redirecting my focus, but as part of my new mental floss, I plan to be more…

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  • Bees Can Smell Cancer

    Bees Can Smell Cancer

    It’s all the buzz. Bees can smell cancer and they are accurate, too. They now join dogs and other animals that have been trained to smell cancer. That’s…

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  • Endlings: the last of their species

    Endlings: the last of their species

    #Endlings are the last of their kind. We hear about their sad stories but National Geographic wonders whether our fascination with them can be enough to nudge us…

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  • Wild Things Make My Heart Sing

    Wild Things Make My Heart Sing

    #Rewilding your yard I’m working on a story about a friend who is trying to bring back native savannas on his 5K farm in the Cumberland Plateau, TN.…

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  • What are you concerned about?

    What are you concerned about?

    I try to keep it light, but the world is in a perilous state, I fear. In the background I worry that SoCom is in Tampa and it’s…

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