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The Meteor Shower
Every year in early August, we are treated to a special "nature show," called a "meteor shower." No, this has nothing to do with using water or staying clean. It has to do with science, so we will need to know some terms first. A comet is basically a big ball of ice...
Life in the USA: Summer Camping
Call of the wild: Kids get hooked on camping in classes for families KANSAS CITY, Missouri Tessa, 8, and Isaac, 6, didn't want to leave Missouri's Weston Bend State Park. The Minters were barely out of the park when the kids began begging for a return trip....
Dehumanizing others
Several years ago I read the classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, written by William Shirer, a German-speaking American journalist who was based in Berlin in the years leading up to WW II. The book was fascinating and disturbing. One especially gruesome part...
How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking
Fear of Public Speaking (This came in an email from Brian Flanagan, a man I had the pleasure of meeting when Zig Ziglar and his team came to the Roanoke Valley a few years ago.) According to that great medical journal, The Readers Digest!, speaking in...
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