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submitted on 11/03/2009

  

Wise Wisdom from... THELifeCoach -- Lesson 14

Learn, grow, achieve all your dreams

Wise Wisdom...
A fool is someone who spits into the wind and, when it comes back to hit him in the face, thinks it's raining.
    -THE LifeCoach

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submitted on 11/01/2009

  

Gary Schlitzner Wins Third Straight Reebock World’s Weakest (Non-Disabled) Man Competition

[Burbia Satire Wire] Miami, October 30 - Gary Schlitzner, of Conshohocken, PA, sealed his third straight Reebock World's Weakest (Non-Disabled) Man Competition when he failed to hoist a 15-pound pumpkin over his head and needed his girlfriend, Brianna, to help him lower the pumpkin from his waistline to "protect against hernia injury." Schlitzner earned 5 points in the event to edge out Sweden's Sven ...read more.

submitted on 10/30/2009

  

No Kids, No Welcome?

"How many children do you have?" asked the nanny who takes care of some kids on our block, right after introducing herself to my husband and me one bright summer afternoon, the day we came to see our new house. "We don't have children," I

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submitted on 10/30/2009

  

Thomas The Tank Engine. If Real Trains Were This Inept...OSHA Anyone?

My youngest, who's about 2 ½, love love loves Thomas and Friends. To those of you who don't have children (particularly boys, but many girls love the trains of Sodor), Thomas is a Tank Engine who rides the rails of the Island of Sodor. He's the brainchild ...read more.

submitted on 10/29/2009

  

My Own Suburban Ellis Island

There's no grandeur to the tidy, unremarkable Windsor Ridge Apartments, where I lived a few years ago before buying my first house. No Statue of Liberty, surely, just a dreary water tower stating "Westborough", surrounded by ghostly corporate parks. But drive in Windsor Ridge and you'll meet the Americans-in-training ...read more.