Yesterday was Palm Sunday, and I am happy to report that our “palms” are eco friendly: we had one of our workers climb up the wall to one of our smaller palm trees and cut a couple branches. These workers then showed our granddaughter Ruby how to weave them into several designs, including one that [...]

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Hi there! In 2008, we read The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo with our daughters as a bedtime story. In this fairy tale, Despereaux is a small mouse with big ears and a bigger heart who finds himself in the midst of an adventure involving a princess, a rat, and a kitchen girl. It [...]

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As unbelievable as that sounds, it is absolutely true. To be more accurate a young girl in the United States deserves a medal for not assuming anything and telling her mother. A 16 yr old boy in Oxfordshire (UK) told her via Facebook that he was going to take his life. Now the article does [...]

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Let me start with an apology. I know many of you were unable to listen live to the show. We use a service, Blog Talk Radio to do our broadcasts. BTR is a great company and we love working with them. Occasionally technology has problems, and BTR is at the very leading edge of the [...]

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 The Cyber Security bill introduced in USA has expectedly raised strong reactions in US against the enormous powers that the Bill confers on certain agencies of the Government as well as the President. Civil Liberty groups are the most worried lot since the security oriented nature of the Bill threatens to reduce the Privacy protection available [...]

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As a fair number of reviewers have pointed out, this is at least as much the story about a family- how a family forms, strengthens, expands to include children – at least as much as it is about the dog of the title. Marley the golden lab is huge, affectionate, and impervious to attempts at [...]

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