Angels surround us from the very beginning of our life on earth. We can see guardian Angels throughout Scripture, such as in the book of Judith where she states that God’s “angel hath been my keeper” (Judith 13:20 DRA). Jesus taught his disciples about the existence of Guardian Angels when speaking about protecting little children, […]
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Fictional heroes have been around since the dawn of storytelling, their stories relayed through the oral or written word, through art. Through tales of fantastic feats, sometimes historical and sometimes allegorical, a connection with the hero is usually made with the recipient of the story. There may be a trait or ability that we identify with
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Writing a poem for a girl can be a simple task… or a laborious task, depending on your state of mind. Really. A hundred million songs swirl about every time I think of her. Don’t believe me? Something, You Are So Beautiful, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Every Time I Think of
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Those words were uttered by my 8th-grade history teacher, Mister Pacione. It was 1975 and he was referring to the New York Mets of two years earlier. A last-place ball club in August who came within one game of winning the World Series. “So be grateful for them. Allow yourself to enjoy. Embrace those moments.
The mobile phone on the front seat was beeping and flashing as I was pulling out of my parking spot in front of the office on Fifth Avenue in Delray. I had just turned on my satellite radio as Elton John was singing. It was obvious he wanted to perform a duet. When that occurs,
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It was a simple question with a simple answer. Of course, I wasn’t afraid to be happy. Everyone in this world is fighting to find their forever happiness. But as the question started to seep into my brain and I looked at the source of the question, someone I loved more than anything, I realized
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It’s getting darker. The lights are dim, and I am straining to see. But it’s there. I’m not driving, and I am not in a drug-induced hallucination. I am however wrestling consciously and subconsciously with two thoughts so opposite I cannot comprehend what’s going on. One is a nightmare. It’s recurring. It won’t leave. It
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The weather. There, I said it. Everyone talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. I get it. What can we do? And no, this is not another column about global warming, greenhouse gases, climate change, or polar vortex storms. Although let’s be logical, many people consider global warming a serious or very serious issue. Possible
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I read an article in Time Magazine. It talked about a Broadway show called “Sea Wall/A Life.” The writing in these separate monologues — played together on a double bill at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre — with solo performances by Tom Sturridge (“Sea Wall”) and Jake Gyllenhaal (“A Life”)had a common theme, death. It said, “Meet Alex, a photographer on
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When I was growing up, we walked to school. Big kids. Little kids. We ate breakfast (cereal or Pop Tarts), picked up our books (nobody had a backpack), and were handed our lunches (as we got older brown bags took the place of our batman lunch boxes) or a dollar to buy lunch. On a
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