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I was reading something several years ago about having a "word of the year".  I've done this in the past.  One year my word was JOY.  My favorite word is BELIEVE so I chose it one year.  Another year it was RELAX.  I put the word of the year all around my house as a...

Got a minute? Wait a minute. Just a minute. It will only take a minute. In a minute. A New York minute! Any minute now. We use the word "minute" to describe a very short period of time.  We request it all the time from others. "Got a minute?  I need to run something...

As we approach the inauguration of the incoming President #45 in the United States, many people are wondering how the polls could have been so wrong.  Polls showed that Hilary Clinton was going to win the 2016 presidential election by a landslide.  But at the end of...

Have you ever been around people who like to talk about what ails them?  I thought it was just more "seasoned" people who talked about all of their aches and pains because they didn't have anything else to talk about.  They share all the ailments they have when asked...

Years ago when you hired someone to do a job, a handshake was enough.  The expectations were laid on the table.  The person being hired to do the job knew what was expected of them.  The payment was agreed upon and the handshake sealed the deal.  People were expected...

Play-Doh®.  The coolest modeling clay for kids.  I loved playing with Play-Doh when I was younger and still love the feel of the soft, colorful clay in my hands.  We would make all kinds of creations from that clay.  We would make things look like food and then play...

Each year in the National Football League there is a draft where football teams select college players to be part of a professional team.  A lot of work goes into scouting players for multiple years, looking at statistics of the individual as well as assessing the...