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Cape Cod and its people. When a Cape Codder steps out the door in the morning the first task is to look up at the weather vane to see the wind direction. The next glance is at the flagpole to determine wind strength. These two observations set the course for the day. Wind determines the extremes ...


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Inroads

By any standard, ours was the poorest. We lived in a small hut built in the middle of a coconut grove. We also had a small outhouse and a woodshed where we kept our sow, chickens, and the big gecko with red eyes. I never got the chance to see the last but I knew it really lived there. There were ...


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Kevin Costner's Oil Solution: 'He Built it, So Let Him...

Featuring: Mike Walsh
Written by: Antje Wilsch
Kevin Costner really cares about the environment. 15 years ago he hired me as the first sales rep of Costner Industries Nevada Corporation (CINC). Kevin Costner, his brother ...
Comments (0) Jun 22, 2010 16,487
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Food For Thought

Featuring: Carolyn Brown
Written by: Tamar Burris
Carolyn Brown thought of her family as “simple eaters.” Carolyn’s mom was always very active and health conscious, but after her own childhood experiences of having to ...
Comments (1) Jun 09, 2010 39,774
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What’s It Worth?

Featuring: Lori Verderame
Written by: Joyce Macias
Integrity Launched a New Career for Dr. Lori Dr. Lori Verderame didn’t plan to get into the business of appraising art and antiques. With a doctorate in art history from the ...
Comments (0) May 09, 2010 7,647
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If You Build It, They Will Play

Featuring: Ron Samuels
Written by: Tamar Burris
It was the early 1980s and Ron Samuels’ good friend had just returned from the Oregon Country Fair with news about an incredible instrument that had turned the whole crowd on—the ...
Comments (0) May 01, 2010 8,929
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Bake a Difference

Featuring: Karen Kelly Kiefer
Written by: Tamar Burris
A thick slice of fresh Irish soda bread, piping hot from the oven and slathered with butter—that’s what comes to mind for Karen Kelly Kiefer when she thinks of childhood. ...
Comments (1) Mar 17, 2010 24,424
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A Home in the Round

Featuring: Melinda Sorber
Written by: Tamar Burris
Melinda Sorber was living in Colorado Springs in a 2,500 square foot home she didn’t like to clean in a subdivision she didn’t like when the idea of a living in a yurt sort of ...
Comments (0) Mar 04, 2010 16,783
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Flying Too High (or Flying Drunk)

Featuring: Capt. Joseph Balzer
Written by: Joyce Macias
A portable ladder dangled from the huge transport plane on the tarmac of Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Joseph Balzer was only three years old, but he was tantalized ...
Comments (0) Feb 20, 2010 40,615
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Messages in a Bottle

Featuring: Christina Greenaway
Written by: Sarah Peppel
When Christina Greenaway returns to her childhood home, she stops to rest on one particular rock by the small fishing village of Mevagissy, now a tourist destination snuggled ...
Comments (0) Feb 10, 2010 19,051
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A Dictator’s Silverware Stirs Memories

Featuring: Arthur Zards
Written by: Joyce Macias
A brown-skinned turkey, homemade gravy, cucumber salad and all the fixings that made Thanksgiving dinner special were on the dining room table at the Zards’ family home in ...
Comments (4) Jan 28, 2010 68,486
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Where is Sonia Fuentes NOW?

Featuring: Sonia Fuentes
Written by: Tamar Burris
Sonia Pressman Fuentes is an American author, speaker, feminist leader and lawyer. She was a founder of National Organization for Women (NOW) and Federally Employed Women (FEW), ...
Comments (13) Jan 19, 2010 71,208
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Four Kids, Three Jobs: A Day in the Life of a VERY Busy Mom

Featuring: Dawn Papandrea-Khan
Written by: Tamar Burris
There is no disputing that Dawn Papandrea-Khan has her hands full. With a husband, three wee ones under six years old (and a fourth on the way any day now!), and three small ...
Comments (0) Dec 22, 2009 90,166
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Because You're the Girl!

Featuring: Linda Moore
Written by: Joyce Macias
Linda’s Fond Memories of Childhood Looking back on her childhood is one of Linda Moore’s favorite things to do, especially when she thinks back to the tricks her older brother, ...
Comments (0) Dec 15, 2009 21,789
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Cancer Starts With a ‘K’

Featuring: Kate Atwood
Written by: Tamar Burris
Kate Atwood was six years old when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. All she knew about that illness was that it started with the letter ‘k’. As time passed, Kate ...
Comments (0) Dec 07, 2009 18,368
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Ron For Your Life

Featuring: Ron Shimony
Written by: Julianne Barclay
Meet “Mr. Possibility”: Making the Impossible…Possible! It is said a person’s childhood shapes much of their personality and determines who they become later in life. Most ...
Comments (0) Dec 04, 2009 16,182
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A Second Chance

Featuring: Lori Chance
Written by: Julianne Barclay
When asked to summarize her life in a six word autobiographical novel Lori Chance just couldn’t do it. Her life has been divided into two separate worlds…two separate universes…two ...
Comments (1) Nov 30, 2009 16,477
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It's All In Your Head

Featuring: Jennifer Smith
Written by: Sarah Peppel
Jennifer Smith, Austin's Mother, Knew That His Pain was not "all in his head" or "a migraine". Her determination got Austin the help he needed to remove a cyst from his brain. Steerin g ...
Comments (3) Nov 25, 2009 20,621
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Dr. Joyce, The Love Doctor

Featuring:  Dr. Joyce Morley Ball
Written by: Tamar Burris
Dr. Joyce, The Love Doctor: A Tale of Obstacles, Family, and Above All - Love “One of the major things that people don’t realize when they look at being an African American ...
Comments (14) Nov 23, 2009 57,420
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The 'Invisible' Slumdogs of India

Featuring: Shelley Seale
Written by: Joyce Macias
Not everyone hears the cry of India’s 25 million abandoned children. Many don’t even know they exist. But freelance writer and author Shelley Seale both knows and hears, and ...
Comments (5) Nov 19, 2009 56,438
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A Story of W.O.E.

Featuring: Derrick Hayes
Written by: Tamar Burris
It was before she passed from her battle with cancer that Derrick Hayes’ mother used to say to him, “Don’t worry how things look because everything is going to be ok.” Her ...
Comments (3) Nov 17, 2009 25,488
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Project Helping Hands

Featuring: Dr. Tan Pinney
Written by: Julianne Barclay
Tan Pinney has come along ways from his days as an immunologist and laboratory research technician in the mid-1970s. His need for people contact pushed him away from the secluded ...
Comments (2) Nov 15, 2009 30,639

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