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Over 40 years ago, “Lookin’ for Love” became a hit country song after appearing in the film Urban Cowboy. The song’s signature line is “I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.” Several times in the last few weeks, that honky-tonk tune has inexplicably come to mind, and I found myself substituting the
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Most mornings I get up around dawn, pour some coffee, and look at the headlines. Those news reports nearly always range from the dire to the ridiculous. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I want to cry, and lots of times I fall into a funk. In this review of some headlines from the last two weeks,
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Laid up by some broken ribs, I recently spent some of my evenings watching a Hallmark series, “Cedar Cove.” (Yes, you read that correctly: Hallmark. Everybody chuckle, and then we’ll move along.) I don’t own a television or subscribe to any online movie outfits, but a DVD featuring Andie MacDowell, an actress I admire, caught
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In his novel The Shape of Illusion, now regrettably out of print, William E. Barrett gives us the story of a centuries-old painting depicting Jesus Christ and the mob surrounding him immediately after Pontius Pilate has condemned him to death. This mysterious painting terrifies its viewers, who see their own faces in the hateful crowd
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