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Stressed to the Max? Consider Barge Therapy (opens the original)
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In 2012, my wife and I were wishing we could trade our business attire for straight jackets. The stress of running our company, the demands of constant travel, and a home renovation in its sixth year all combined to put us in a constant state of high anxiety. Our calendars were so full we couldn’t even schedule a nervous breakdown, which we both desperately needed. We knew if we didn’t get unplugged, we’d come unglued. Our “sigh meters” confirmed it. What’s a sigh meter? Over the years, we’ve no
On Porches (opens the original)
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There’s something about sitting on a porch that transforms a person. When you get off the gerbil wheel and just sit to watch the world go by, it changes your perspective. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill spent many hours on porches discussing WWII strategies, treaties and other worldly matters. Sometimes they just sat in silence.The late Dolly Parton said “I felt like a star when I would stand on the front porch… and sing my little heart out.”Author Ray Bradbury said “Heaven is a hous
The Vacation Detour That Transformed My College Regrets (opens the original)
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Albion, Michigan was an unscheduled stop on my 1987 summer vacation. I had left my home in Southern Indiana six hours earlier to photograph lighthouses on the Lake Michigan shoreline. It would be the perfect antidote for the sheer drudgery my career in medical technology had become. The lab rat was escaping from his cage. At a pivotal interchange, a spontaneous impulse teased me to turn east instead of west and revisit the campus of Albion College. Although I studied there for four years, I had
How the State Capital Was Swindled Away From Corydon, Indiana, Part 3 (opens the original)
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Author’s Note: In Part 2 of this historical fiction, William Henry Harrison stormed out of the Governor’s Headquarters in Corydon, Indiana after a testy exchange with William Hendricks. Harrison, anxious to move the state capital to Indianapolis, abandoned diplomacy and challenged Hendricks to one hand of poker at the Branham Tavern that evening to settle the issue once and for all.Harrison storms outThe Pretty Good Colonel strode out of the Governor’s parlor, stopped at the front doo
How the State Capital Was Swindled Away From Corydon, Indiana, Part 2 (opens the original)
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Author’s Note: In Part 1, William Henry Harrison (The Pretty Good Colonel) had checked into his room in Corydon, Indiana to rest before meeting with Indiana Governor William Hendricks. His agenda: to coerce the governor to move the Capital of the state north to Indianapolis. His motive: to launch his presidential campaign in a climate where he is less likely to suffer from the ravages of “The Colonel’s Curse,” i.e., prickly heat, inflicted by spending long days in the saddle in the Ohio Valley h
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