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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
These are well-known words of wisdom from Ben Parker to his nephew shortly before Ben’s final breath. Sadly, it was left to young Peter to figure out exactly what kinds of responsibilities his powers came with through decades of soul-searching in comics, television series, and movies.
Peter chose to use […]

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In 2003, I left one of my favorite jobs that I’d ever had in Illinois to move with my new wife to Virginia. She had joined the Navy, so she didn’t have much choice about where she was going to be. To save our relationship and build our future, leaving that company was […]

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My Dreams
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? For me, it was a doctor. Actually for a brief time, I wanted to be a worm doctor, whatever that is, but mostly I wanted to be a medical doctor. Then again, to a 5 year […]

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My father was a great man. Actually, he still is as far as I know. I learned a lot of invaluable lessons from him and from my mother.
To this day, a full 20 years after moving out of his home, I am certain that I could survive pretty well in almost any environment […]

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I just StumbledUpon a blog entry that I had to share with my readers.
How to Walk Through Steel-Reinforced Walls and Achieve other Similarly Impossible Feats is one of the my favorite entries I’ve ever accidentally found through StumbleUpon. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of other great blog entries that […]

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