Why I’m anti antibiotics and how they saved my life

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How dare the meat industry ET AL  surreptitiously dose me to death with the very substances that I may yet rely on to save my life?

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Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

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Sci-Fi movies do not tend to ding my dong in quite the same way as drama or rom coms, and I would no doubt have given the book a miss. As things turned out, I was sucked in before the penny dropped.

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God Bless America – for all our sakes

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The new American President will hold the keys to US nuclear weapons and wield great power over stability in the Middle East, NATO, the UN, the quality of the air we breathe, our oceans, and the environment we live in.

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Carrying Albert Home/Med Albert i Baksätet by Homer Hickam

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I haven’t enjoyed fretting over a rooster since Chicken Licken had a bad day.

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Six good reasons why our empty nest can claim a silver lining

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As abruptly as our couple status turned quadruple some 19 years ago, we are now destined to return to a duo’s life in the home we bought to raise a family.

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More Strawberries and Salt

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I watched the bright-red truck roll away. A piece of my heart rolled away with it. My last child was leaving school. Just four days after my first.

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