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Public or Private, Home or Magnet - How to choose the Best School for Kids By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life CoachRecently I had dinner with my friends Bill and Nancy Palmer and the subject of school choice came up; mostly because at one time they had each of their five children in five different schools. If you think that schedule sounds crazy, then you’ve...

To a large extent, we are a mobile, moving society. Although I don’t have any statistics, I would venture to guess that a large majority of Americans have made one or more major moves in their lives. For these people (and that includes me), where we were born is not where we currently live. The reasons we moved are varied. Some move for better jobs, some for health, some because it is part of...

I had a reading of my book, Late Night Musings, and a signing at a local adult community (adult as in age, not sexual inclinations). It took place at their weekly coffee and bagel get-together. There were about thirty people, ages fifty and above, in attendance - more for the bagels than to hear me I think. Anyway, I briefly explained how the book came to be then read about...

You’ve read stories about them; you might even have one. I speak of those precocious children who start playing piano at the age of two and go on to be a concert pianist. They are those children, who typically because of a singular event in their lives, focus their life to become a doctor, a great scientist or perhaps one whose life is steeped in politics. They are the ones who seem...