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Six months ago, we took foster placement of a little boy named Cole. Yesterday we adopted him. We adopted Cady and Emma earlier this year. For the past four years, Ana and I have been foster parents. It’s been life-changing. We have aged tremendously, and we have lived exceptionally....
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Image provided by Tanji Johnson I met Tanji Johnson in 2001 when she had just graduated from being an amateur athlete to the Professional Division of competitive fitness in the IFBB. She became an icon in the fitness industry, competing for 15 years as one of the very best,...
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Aging looks very different in 2020 than it did when I was growing up. The average 60-year-old man or woman looks and acts very differently than they did even a generation ago. Fitness is the culprit. That and eating healthier and living healthier lifestyles. Until now, however, finding applicable...
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The day Ana and I became trained and licensed foster parents, we naively stepped into a strange dichotomous world. It’s a place where some view a singular event as unfair, cripplingly painful, and wrong, yet it is just and immensely joyful to others. We have been selfless heroes doing...
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We hear his big truck first. The low rumble of his heavy-duty engine as the truck methodically works its way down the block. Then you hear the hydraulic whine of the mechanical arm as it lifts the garbage bins high in the air, then flips them over and dumps...
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As a father and a taxpayer, I can’t help but look at the state of our world and ask myself who the heck raised these fools. My grandmother was the most significant influence in my life, and she was born in 1917 in the prairie province of Saskatchewan in...
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Before 2020 I always thought of people who stored large caches of food and water, medical supplies, and other supplies and survival equipment as oddballs. After lining up to buy toilet paper and rationing squares when none could be found, I have changed my opinion. Being prepared by having...
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This year has kicked everyone’s butt and some people much harder than others. Suicide is such a problem that the US National Library Of Medicine website posted an article titled Covid19-Suicides: A Global Psychological Pandemic. Ana and I talk about our circumstances and what we have learned about ourselves...
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I retired from commercial photography a few years ago, so I don’t do as many photoshoots now as I once did. It’s better this way. When I do work, I feel a passion for it like I did years ago before the dollars became more important than the art....
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Our eighth wedding anniversary came and went with little fanfare on the 8th of this month. Ana and I had dated four years before we married, we wanted to be sure. So with a strong love and twelve years of wedded bliss under our belts, it should have been...
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