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Again… A funny thing happened on the (almost) eighth anniversary of this site/blog… I managed to accidently delete my database. So basically everything I had posted here… kind of like,

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The Myth That Is Our Self

Everyone lives with self mythology. The more important a memory is to the story we tell ourselves about ourselves, the more often we rehearse the memory. And the more often

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‘The Whole Nine Yards’ Seeking a Phrase’s Origin - NYTimes.com

‘The Whole Nine Yards’ – Seeking a Phrase’s Origin In The Future

The recent discovery of several instances of “the whole six yards” in newspapers from the 1910s — four decades before the earliest known references to “the whole nine yards” —

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Christmas Memories

I was reading through my emails and Google Reader feeds today when I came across Jim Casada’s December Newsletter. As I was reading his list of childhood Christmas Memories I

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fiscal cliff

Do You Know What Corporate America Is Planning For?

Every news story about the coming “fiscal cliff” talks about what the “real” problem is. The consensus being, that American companies aren’t making decisions on employment or investment because they don’t know what

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