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It is often said that bad news comes in threes. Maybe for some, but that has not been my experience. For me bad news seems to come more like rain. Just as there are days, weeks and sometime months of cloud-free, rainless days, there seems to be times when all news is good news, and everything is coming up roses, as they say. Then like the clouds rolling in, I start to hear about people I know...

Can you believe all the celebrities who died in '07? I'm sure you saw the names. Every newspaper in the country ran a list back around new years of those who didn't make it out alive. Don't you hate that? It's enough to bring anybody down. Of course, it's bad news for people on the list, but it's bad news for all of us. It shoves your own mortality right in your face. Who needs that kind of...

Let’s fight the good fight here, for Christ’s sake! Of course, if you have the swine flu, shingles, Lyme disease and are behind on your property tax payments, you’re screwed, but still...if you only have one of these things, you’re in good stead.I’m just not buying all the bad news. I mean, we have a black President! How enlightened is THAT? And, since life is such a friggin’ short...

It is interesting that when we are young, we feel invincible, indestructible. The twilight years of our lives, the ending years, days and hours of our lives are so distant that we simply don't think about them, don't focus on them. And maybe that is as it should be. By setting those issues and concerns aside, the young can concentrate on the here and now - facing challenges, overcoming them,...

It is interesting that when we are young, we feel invincible, indestructible. The twilight years of our lives, the ending years, days and hours of our lives are so distant that we simply don’t think about them, don’t focus on them. And maybe that is as it should be. By setting those issues and concerns aside, the young can concentrate on the here and now—facing challenges, overcoming them,...

Hi,My name is Dena Stewart. I am a visual artist (painter), writer and co-founder of Center for Folk and Community Art (CFCA), a non profit outreach organization that uses writing and visual art as a tool of intervention, prevention and education to impact community issues and improve the human condition. A few months ago my own human condition was challenged. I was diagnosed with endometrial...

This morning, Travis, my mailman, delivered the bad news. “…it’s because of the economy, Mr. C ”, he said. “Travis, you guys have threatened to do this many times. ” “Well this time we mean it. We really do. We just can’t afford to do Saturday deliveries anymore.” “What do you mean ’can’t afford ’? How much are...