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The power of fear | Mark’s Remarks

You’ve heard the Franklin Delano Roosevelt quote over and over.  “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” We hear it and say “Yeah, yeah.  Heard it before.”   But…

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‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’ | Play Review

By Samuel Muren Edited by Mary Adams I stepped out of my usual world of entertainment and into a new one. To clarify, I am not a man of the…

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Noticing progress (and those opposed to it) | Ott Observations

I spent the past few weeks on a vacation, driving to the east coast and back.  There were road construction delays on virtually every highway I traveled.   Rather than…

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Spooky stories again | Mark’s Remarks

I think I have shared, over the years a bunch of personal and passed-down stories that serve to raise the hairs on the back of the neck.  The stories I…

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Armageddon Time | Movie Review

At first glance, writer-director James Gray’s fictionalized, yet semi-autobiographical “Armageddon Time” seems dark and gloomy with largely unlikable characters. However, this movie is one that audiences must ruminate on a bit…

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‘Causeway’ | Movie Review

A trend in indie cinema these days seems to be sparse dialogue, pregnant pauses, and contemplative facial expressions. Intensity. Deep meaning. Symbolism. “Causeway” checks all the boxes. However, it offers so much more. Led…

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Shedding Light on Family History and Cancer Risk | For Your Health

Dr. Graham A. Colditz Siteman Cancer Center If you ask some of your friends to name three things that increase the risk of cancer, it’d be likely that some version…

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Negligence and abuse; subtle or not so subtle? | Mark’s Remarks

en we think of abuse, we immediately think of the physical; things we can see.   We hear about and experience stories of abuse. It’s all around us. In this…

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The Jekyll and Hyde voter | Ott Observations

A couple of recent national surveys got me thinking about how disconnected our voting ideology can be from what we really want.   The Pew Research Center found that only…

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Manners, ad nauseum | Mark’s Remarks

I think I’ve written about manners and the way people behave way too much over the years.  I’m starting to get a little tired of myself, actually. But heck. What…