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Appreciating Our Passengers Along the Road of Life
By Jason Menard In rushing through our everyday lives, we often are so focused on getting ahead that we forget to look around and appreciate those who have joined us for a ride down the road of life. I...
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The Great Middle-Class Doughnut
By Jason Menard Why is it that in our attempts to find the best that life has to offer, we often ignore the most important aspect of our existence – our soul? I’m referring to the underlying societal...
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A New Perspective on the New Year
By Jason Menard As we age we often lament the loss of things that we enjoyed in our youth. But that mentality is short-sighted when one considers all that we gain in return. All in all, it’s hardly a...
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My Pocket Picked by a Mouse
By Jason Menard Mar. 2, 2007 — Call CrimeStoppers, I’ve had my pocket picked! The culprit? A short, dark male with a propensity for wearing red pants and no shirt. He has overly large ears and a...
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What Was Actually Stolen
By Jason Menard Just when you want to hope for the best in this world, someone comes around and makes you question whether good truly exists. Earlier this week, my wife was robbed outside our home. The...
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A Matter of Perspective
By Jason Menard One of the great things about life with my wife is the difference in our backgrounds – and our relationship has helped me to broaden my perspective on life. Oddly enough, I was reminded...
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Delusions of Culinary Grandeur
By Jason Menard I’ve discovered that the greatest thing those TV cooking shows serve up are delusions of culinary grandeur in people like me. But for every cooking nightmare they spawn, they’ve also...
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Trying to Not Cut My Ties to the Past
By Jason Menard When it comes to shaving, I avoid the cutting edge. My experience has been that the classics never go out of style. In my case, that’s literally a classic — a Wilkinson Sword Classic...
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In Hockey, Life, There’s No Place Like Home
By Jason Menard, Whether your name is Dorothy or Dmitri, there really is no place like home. In the wake of Alexander Burmistrov’s return to the KHL and Ilya Kovalchuk’s decision to forsake $77 million...
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A New Year Starting with Chaos; Ending with Thanks
By Jason Menard You’re never too young or too old to learn. And as we welcome 2014, I’d like to offer a few lessons that I’ve had the fortune (both good and bad) to learn — and, in some cases — relearn...
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