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America the Beautiful, Part 3

Those who love the country enough to sing her songs and those who love the country enough to protest for her reform are in different ways communicating that America is worth fighting for.

America the Beautiful, Part 2

A few years ago when Valor started with Trail Life I had a good conversation with him in the car about what it means to “pledge,” why most people he will ever meet will say it, and why his father no longer does.

marketplace madness

Apparently I’m one of only 5% of Americans who buys health insurance on the individual (non-group) market. I hear that “five percent” figure mostly from politicians trying to downplay the impact of a national Health Insurance Marketplace rollout that has gone hellishly wrong.

opting out of the collective

Right about the same time earlier this year we decided that we would embark on the reproductive adventure of embryo adoption, we also made another big decision.

Paul or nothing?

I’ve been kicking this post around in my head for weeks, and now that our county and district conventions are over with and the North Carolina primary is finished, I’ll state what everyone who knows me on Facebook undoubtedly knows by now.

bursting bubbles

We were a couple days away from “pulling the trigger” when a new discovery brought us up short.