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Victim energy is a siren song to which we must stop our ears | Whale’s Tales
We find them everywhere we turn.
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‘I must have driven through a barn’ and other stories of grace | Whale’s Tales
My brother, Jack, and I were jabbering on Christmas Eve about all the things we’ve done in our…
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When old age asks the new year for a dance | Whale’s Tales
One of the important lessons the dawning of each new year has taught me is the futility of…
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Thanksgiving and the Whale kitchen’s eternal warmth | Whale’s Tales
Looking today at the North Auburn home in which I grew up fills me with wonder.
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The ‘ignoranting’ of Americans in the age of false narratives | Whale’s Tales
Many sweeping generalizations stalk our land today, making no distinctions between diverse people and institutions, but lumping them…
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The cost we pay for having a marketplace of ideas | Whale’s Tales
Ah, the internet, the internet, let us count the many blessings of the internet.
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We all need to acknowledge the devils in ourselves | Whale’s Tales
I read somewhere years ago — I have forgotten where — that if a person cannot relish the…
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Writer confesses to deep, dark secret | Whale’s Tale
With grammar and language, clarity matters.
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My fellow Americans, we need a political middle again | Whale
For the poor beleaguered voter in the coming elections, I offer this piece of advice — beware of…
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There’s nothing partisan about recognizing the truth | Whale’s Tales
Nobody cares. Nobody is watching.
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Here’s the supreme irony behind so-called states’ rights | Whale’s Tales
Many crack-brained ideas are riding the winds in this country, noxious seeds bound for the ears of sympathetic…
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To prevent future violence, we need to learn what’s in us | Whale’s Tales
Fresh pools of blood, tears and fury.
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Seems we didn’t see what we saw, or so say the gaslighters | Whale
Like others lately, I have been avidly following the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings into the attack on the…