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Warm weather makes for good camping
Now that the weather’s finally warming up, it’s a great time to plan a camping trip. My favorite time to camp is on nice, sunny ...
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Honoring our service men and women
Military service members make great sacrifices daily in order to defend our country and it’s citizens. Many of them pay the ultimate price for their ...
by Debra Howell, Friday, May 23, 2014 7:00 am
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Journaling is often therapeutic
It’s a good habit to start writing things down. Though I don’t mean by keeping a list. Or jotting things down before they slip your ...
by Debra Howell, Friday, May 16, 2014 7:00 am
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National Nurse’s Week
I’ve spent a lot of time in hospitals throughout my life — though never as a patient.
by Debra Howell, Friday, May 9, 2014 7:00 am
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Rules of the road
May is National Bike Month — an event widely celebrated as a means to promote cycling and it’s many benefits.
by Debra Howell, Friday, May 2, 2014 7:00 am
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Proper care for Easter pets
Every year around Easter, I notice trucks lining the highways and parking lots with cages of baby animals, usually with some innocuous phrase scrawled out ...
by Debra Howell, Friday, April 25, 2014 7:00 am
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Think green
April 22, 2014 is Earth Day — a day that marks the anniversary of the modern environmental movement that evolved in 1970. As little as ...
by Debra Howell, Friday, April 18, 2014 7:00 am
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Technology helping pets
As a young girl, I had a strong love for animals and often dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. This was the solution my 8-year-old-self came ...
by Debra Howell, Friday, April 11, 2014 7:00 am
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Photography, a great hobby
In the spirit of staying ambitious, it’s good practice to learn new things and remain a student of the world around you. Photography is a ...
by Debra Howell, Friday, April 4, 2014 7:00 am
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Complacency vs. ambition
Before I start, let me loosely define complacency as “a sense of satisfaction in things that are certain”; then I’ll assume its antonym is ambition, ...