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Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Not Glazed Over
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Irish Eyes Are Smiling, Not Glazed Over

  Originally published in 2012, this one still applies… Let’s get one thing out of the way right now: Green beer is a sin. It’s a unicorn as far as beer goes; it simply doesn’t exist. Adding green food coloring to pancakes on St. Patrick’s Day morning is festive. Adding it to watered-down domestic beer…

Is This Our Great Depression?
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Is This Our Great Depression?

  The Great Depression lasted 10 years. A decade. Babies were born and spent their formative years in that struggle. That determined how the Greatest Generation lived the rest of their lives, raised their children, invested, voted, impacted society, and lived their true purposes…or not.  We’ve been living in the COVID-19 pandemic for two years…

The Gift & Curse of Pandemic ‘Free Time’
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The Gift & Curse of Pandemic ‘Free Time’

When life as we all knew it stopped back in March 2020, suddenly we had all of this free time. Footage showed empty streets, the absence of traffic, and wildlife returning to places where it had been scared off by humanity. Of course there were new concerns, but for those of us who were lucky…