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One year we were given a time share condo. It was a one bedroom unit and most of the time when we tried to trade it for some place we actually wanted to go, there were no one bedroom units available for the next three hundred years or so, so eventually we gave it to relatives as it had been given to us.

The Hell of Nightclubs

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Back in the ancient days of my twenties, I would often be a trooper and join some horde headed to a nightclub. It would not take long after being rubber-stamped or enduring other various entry rituals that I would begin mentally writing a story about how god-awful the place and the people were.

Only the confident survive

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Since the 1970s, I’ve been fascinated with (at times, scared of) an American sub-culture who are convinced that the nation’s economy — and existence — is about to collapse.

A Promise Kept

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On our last night together in Uganda, Compassion International’s last team of traveling bloggers sat around a table and processed what we’d just experienced together.  There was a lot of laughter, a lot of questioning, a lot of encouragement and a lot of promises.

Not the good kind of green

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I believe that each of us is in constant struggle with tendencies that run counter to what civilized society says we should have. For the sake simplification, I will lump all of them together and call it “human nature.” It is human nature to horde what is yours without sharing, but for the sake of society we must be generous in our support of others.

The Faith of Barak Obama

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Well, ok.  So maybe I wasn't as "back" as I thought; but here we go again making an effort to blog more consistently.  What better way to jump back in than to discuss fellow Nashvillian and CPA dad, Stephen Mansfield's new book "The Faith of Barak Obama".

The Faith of Barack Obama

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Well, ok.  So maybe I wasn't as "back" as I thought; but here we go again making an effort to blog more consistently.  What better way to jump back in than to discuss fellow Nashvillian and CPA dad, Stephen Mansfield's new book "The Faith of Barack Obama".

The problem went from irritating to alarming as incidents of aggressive panhandling leading to violent crime began showing up of

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It should come as no surprise in this time of economic hardship that more people than ever have taken up panhandling as a way to earn a few extra bucks.

Glad to see that Malanga reiterates the fact that most folks who are homeless do not panhandle....

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