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What I Really Know About Legacy: Family Value
A California writer learns a legacy of thrift and value from her immigrant family.
August 6, 2009
What I Really Know About Freedom: A Second Wind
Ami E. Rodland writes about the freedom she has found after her husband's death and the realization that she can thrive on her own.
July 30, 2009
What I Really Know About Freedom: I Had It. My Sister Did Not
In 1949, my parents had to escape what is now the Czech Republic. So one night, my father and mother left their 6-year-old daughter, Ivana, with her grandmother and pretended they were merely going away for the weekend.
July 24, 2009
What I Really Know About Freedom: the Freedom Deal
Claudia J. Spence discusses lessons about freedom learned while getting around in a wheelchair.
July 16, 2009
What I Really Know About Freedom: Debt Release
My freedom finally came when all of my debts were erased. I vowed to avoid debt and have kept my promise. I learned to be satisfied with the provisions God made.
July 13, 2009
What I Really Know About Freedom: Shed the ‘Shoulds’
I learned that the rules I’d been living by (e.g., can’t dance if your husband doesn’t; always look your best in public) were all in my head. And when I replaced the “shoulds” with “coulds,” possibilities sprang up everywhere.
July 13, 2009
About Civic Duty: Three Obligations
My dad walked me to school on the first day of kindergarten. As we walked, he talked to me about what a great adventure I was beginning and said: “Honey, I want you to always remember what I am about to tell you."
July 8, 2009
About Civic Duty: Privilege
My mother worked the polls in our town, from as long back as I can remember until she felt she was too old to manage it. Polling days were long days, especially when she was juggling the needs of a husband and five children. But she always said, “It’s the least I can do.”
July 8, 2009
About Civic Duty: A New and Awesome Responsibility
Civic duty today entails far more than keeping informed, voting and doing volunteer work. With our planet warming and running low on natural resources, civic duty now requires a change in lifestyle, one that will help future generations to survive. It’s a new and awesome responsibility.
July 8, 2009
What I Really Know About Eternal Youth: My Husband George
I would much rather have a man who’s got it all together on the inside than to have 10 originally beautiful specimens who, when things begin falling out, spreading out, and going out, lose all they ever had.
June 25, 2009
What I Really Know About Eternal Youth: The Boomer Tribe
My boomer friends and I are not going gentle into the dark night of old age. To begin with, we don’t think we have to age. If our knees blow out, we ask the surgeon to make us new ones. And if we can’t jog anymore, we bike or swim.
June 18, 2009
What I Really Know About Eternal Youth: The Other Frankie
The next time you’re in Hoboken and meet an elderly gentleman who smiles, tips his fedora and says, “I’m the other Frankie … the good-looking one,” that would be my dad.
June 16, 2009
What I Really Know About Eternal Youth: Pet Lessons
Champ taught me that youth lies in endurance, the appreciation of respite from pain, and joy in the love of family.
June 1, 2009
What I Really Know About Finding a Job: Saved by the Mongoose
To land a job, you have to discover a way to stand out from all other qualified applicants. My technique: Find something of personal interest to the interviewer.
May 29, 2009
What I Really Know About the Internet: A Smuggler’s Paradise
Like a tunnel dug beneath the border between two countries, the Internet is a pipeline for all my special goodies—from heavenly hand-rolled cigars to chocolates to die for—all at discounted prices.
May 27, 2009
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