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Almost 20 years ago I earned a B.A. in print journalism from Chapman University and in the process worked for several news outlets, freelancing and honing a writing craft I thought would become a lifelong profession. I was journalism student of the year when I graduated and had departmental honors. That was 1997. By 1999 …
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Researcher Julia Galef recently offered great insights on the idea of a Scout mindset vs. Soldier mindset pointing out that most people see their interactions with others as a competition. Somebody’s gotta win and somebody’s gotta lose reflecting the philosophy of an unreformed “Ricky Bobby” (Talladega Nights 2006). Samuel Clemons, better known as Mark Twain said …
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Violence is most peculiar. Most of the physical violence I endured in my 40 years probably occurred before age 21. Hand full of fist fights, ass whippings and black eyes from Chapman Basketball and pro tryouts. But the violence I suffered was sometimes in observing other people harmed. Saw my first deceased corpse when I …
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R&B singer Eric Benet once sang, on the title track of his 1996 release True to Myself, “It’s so very hard to know which way to go. A lie can be the gospel truth if eloquently told.” Have you ever wondered if when people see you they are seeing the real you? Is not the …
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In a Twitter poll, I said, “True or False…People spend a lot of time in the mirror because they like the way they look.” Guess how many people called b.s.? Seventy one percent said, “FALSE!” The sample size was small but maybe a moral to that conclusion is that people spend more time trying to …
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