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How to find your next job
The Covid-19 pandemic has put a lot of people out of work. Maybe you’re one of the millions of people who, due to no fault of your own, suddenly find yourself looking for a job, because of the Corona virus. When I was younger, and needed a job, I would take the first job I…
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A fork in the road
A young boy and his little sister skipped down the road on their way to town. Their mother had sent them to buy some sugar so that she could bake cookies. The boy told his sister that he knew a short cut through the woods so they went off the road and took a path…
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Marriage Advice
Recently (July 25, 2020) Kathy and I celebrated our thirty-ninth wedding anniversary. We’ve had our good days and our bad days, but overall, it’s been good. I’m not the smartest man alive, but I do have a few words of wisdom about marriage for anyone who’s willing to listen. Rule number one is: be honest…
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God’s crisis-response team
During the Cold War, I was a security policeman in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Germany. One of my jobs was to work in a tower where I monitored an alarm system on the perimeter of a nuclear munitions storage facility. To prepare for an attack, we had regular training exercises. During a training…
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Exploding Batteries
When I was a kid, I saw something I’ll never forget. Three men were looking under the hood of a car when suddenly the battery exploded, and battery acid splattered over one man’s face. Fortunately, a water faucet was nearby, and they quickly washed his face with water. I don’t know if his injuries were…
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Add the spice
I’m not a hot sauce guru like Sean Evans on the YouTube series Hot Ones, but I do like to spice up my food. My favorite hot sauce is Sriracha sauce. I put Sriracha sauce on a lot of my foods. Not everyone in my family likes their food this spicy, but they all like…
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Don’t Let Your Dogs Loose
Some of you know I enjoy cycling. Cycling is a fun and exciting sport, but it does include the risk of crashing. One day I was cycling with a group of friends at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey. We were clipping along at about seventeen miles an hour when two dogs suddenly jumped…
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Comedic Relief
I’m glad you joined us for this latest episode of the Attic Fables Podcast. Right now, the entire world is in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. My purpose for today’s story is to give you some comedic relief to the stress we’re all going through. I used to be a Security Police in the…
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Focus on the Positive
Be positive and happy.
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Cascading Style Sheets
Years ago, website developers had to style the appearance of each of their webpages. Today they use CSS which stands for Cascading Style Sheet. A Cascading Style Sheet is an electronic text document used by webpages to give them their distinctive appearance, i.e. style. If you want all the pages of your website to have…
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Wild Coyotes
A few years ago, coyotes caused a big problem in northeast New Jersey. In the town of Saddle River, a rabid coyote attacked and bit a man who was working in his yard. In the town of Norwood, a coyote attacked a man as he was walking his dog. In other North Jersey towns, residents…
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Life is like calculus
I teach at two local community colleges and work full-time in a public high school. I see all kinds of young people with all kinds of learning styles. Some students are good at memorizing facts. Some are very creative. Still others are better at comprehension and critical thinking. Most students can learn to multiply because…
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Can’t Get No Satisfaction
You don’t have to have grown up during the sixties to know the song “Can’t Get No Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones. It was a big hit way back then and still is a favorite among fans fifty years later. Actually, Mick Jagger should have said, “I can’t get any satisfaction,” or “I get no…
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Plan to be successful
Welcome to the auspicious year of 2020. Why do I call it auspicious? I believe 2020 will be a happy and prosperous year because it brings new opportunities to become a better and more successful person. Growth and prosperity, however, won’t happen on its own. You have to work at it, and the best way…
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Holiday Fuss
The holidays can be a stressful time. You want to make everything picture-perfect, but time is limited. Just when you need to go faster, holiday traffic and long lines at the checkout slows you down. Fortunately, the happy holiday music helps to keep you in a good mood, but it’s the Christmas carols you enjoy…
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