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I zip up my jacket and pull on my boots. The patio slate and grass are slick with ice-the sky black as pitch. Even Mars and my flashlight can't penetrate the frigid, thick atmosphere. When will I see the Big Dipper and Orion again? Watch your step, I coach myself....

And...just like that...it's 2019! In fact, because I let an early holiday-related deadline sneak past me, we're already more than a week in. How in the world, and when, did that happen? My mother used to tell me, and yours probably told you too, that the older you get...

Browsing through Borders Books twenty years ago, I chanced upon a writer's delight. Famous faces appeared on cards with a quote and their signature. The words captured life unique to the luminary. Did these folk the likes of Albert Einstein and Jane Austen know their...

As 2019 approaches, (and the absolute lack of story ideas and news-type-activity has ground to its annual 'holiday halt,' I thought I'd take a little trip down memory lane, reliving one of my favorite "learning and growing experiences" provided by my talented and...