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Paper or Plastic?

Paper or plastic?  Coke or Pepsi?  Boxers or briefs?  Many of us make these deceptively simple, split-second decisions, hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of times throughout our lives.  But are these choices really as simple as they seem, and do we actually have any real choices at all? Long ago, my siblings labeled me the “goody … Continue reading

Being Real

Even in his prime he was nothing fancy.  Built like a teddy bear but with the floppy ears of a dog, “Branigin” was (and remains) my favorite stuffed animal.  While my memory of exactly the day I received him is a little hazy (that does tend to happen after 50 years or so), I think … Continue reading