Yesterday morning after checking the weather, I was faced with an uncomfortable choice. Either I could wait to catch the bus in a thunderstorm and then walk the rest of the way home through that thunderstorm or I could spend an extra 2 hours waiting at the library until Micah came to pick me up.
Those [...]

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Warning, Bourne Ultimatum spoiler ahead.
In the final Bourne movie, Jason Bourne finally discovers his true identity. He discovers who and what made him into a completely new person, an assassin. And the truth is: he made Jason Bourne.
Certainly, the creepy government agents helped. They were the ones who stripped his brain of his past…but he [...]

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The news on world food supply hasn’t been good. Droughts, oil issues, etc are creating greater food insecurity for millions. Americans are feeling a small pinch (or even a medium one) though fewer of us have to worry about starving to death in the near future.
Sometimes it seems narcissistic to focus only on our own [...]

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Credit cards are such a common fixture of society that sometimes we forget what they really are: revolving credit accounts that obligate your future earnings for the sake of immediate gratification. This doesn’t mean that credit cards are horrible and everyone should stay away from them, but it does mean that there is a real potential there for things to get out of control.

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One of my aunts mentioned to me a few days back that she’d seen housing prices in our area were going down. She asked whether we were considering buying. Nope.

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