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Christian wife, mother, grandma "Ugma", musician (keyboards, ukuleles), pet owner (dogs, parrots), enjoying life near the purlicue of the mitten, Bay City, MI.

GUEST POST from Don – Alexithymia

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ALEXITHYMIA A recent study suggests that one possible cause of autism is a cold or flu during pregnancy.  Possible, I suppose.  However autismspeaks.org says, “Research tells us that autism tends to run in families, and a meta-analysis of 7 twin studies claim that 60 to 90% of the risk for autism comes from your genome.”  Therefore, I wouldn’t …
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GUEST POST from Don – Social Morality

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SOCIAL MORALITY Can we talk about something important? Words can have meaning.  Other times they are meaningless.  It is in the realm of modern social morality where both can be true. We can talk about the value of people, but in the same sentence proclaim that some people matter more than others merely because that group was …
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GUEST POST from Don: Dumb Headlines

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DUMB HEADLINES Dumb headlines (and articles) fill America’s news feeds.  One can hardly read the news on any given day without at least one.  Each of these articles was written with an agenda and never left the agenda plantation to explore other possibilities.  Even if I were to agree with their conclusions I could not agree with their …
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