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Presidents Day Thoughts Feb. 18, 2025
Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Presidents Day. Hope you are having the day off to relax ... Read More
Thoughts for Autumn Oct. 30, 2024
Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace t... Read More
Thinkers, Sinkers and Buying a Whitewater Canoe Feb. 03, 2024
Thinkers are sinkers, that's what I always say. All right, well, I don't always say it, but I just ... Read More
Some Thoughts on 'Thoughts and Prayers' After Mass Shootings Mar. 03, 2023
The East Lansing community is still reeling from the Michigan State University mass shooting last mo... Read More
Obsessive Thoughts Keep Intruding Jan. 03, 2023
Dear Annie: I am a 19-year-old woman who can't stop thinking about this guy, "Charles." He has been ... Read More
Reality vs. Perception Makes My Head Hurt Oct. 19, 2022
Had it not been required to graduate, I would never have taken the class titled simply: Philosophy. ... Read More
Your Mission: Learn To Live May. 12, 2022
May is graduation month. Students, parents and friends celebrate the end of one process and the star... Read More
Recommendations on Opening Up Mar. 31, 2020
Dear Annie: I understand what "Unable To Open Up" is saying. I was never able to communicate with my... Read More
Being Comfortable Is Vital Mar. 30, 2020
Dear Annie: Please help me with a problem I'm having at home. I'm a 15-year-old girl still living at... Read More
Trying Therapy and Feeling Blocked Mar. 05, 2020
Dear Annie: I've been seeing a therapist for around five years, and I find myself unsure what to say... Read More
The Whole Moon and Nothing but the Moon Oct. 13, 2019
The spiritually naive will encourage positive thinking and suggest the way to deal with negativity i... Read More
Mercury Warns Against Over-Identification Jul. 30, 2019
Some thoughts and emotions are more persistent than others. Even so, this last day of the Mercury re... Read More
Taming Fearful Thoughts Jun. 11, 2019
Dear Annie: My wife and I have three perfect grandchildren, ages 1, 5 and 7. We love watching them a... Read More
Such Empty Thoughts and Prayers Oct. 04, 2017
No matter how great one's faith in God, after yet another massacre of innocent people, it's impossib... Read More
We Need More Than 'Thoughts and Prayers' Oct. 02, 2017
Whenever someone commits a heinous gun crime like the massacre in Las Vegas, politicians swiftly ass... Read More
The Barn
Mar. 17, 2014
