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It certainly did to me when my stepfather suggested we sit down and watch the movie adaptation of "Fiddler on the Roof" featuring legendary actor Chaim Topol playing the lead role of Tevye. The movie spanned *TWO* VHS tapes which should give you an idea of how long ago this conversation was and the state of video technology at the time! Oy vey! I'll confess that I had no idea what the movie was about…

OK, now that I've gotten the kind of heavy stuff out of the way...now we can go with the story I was originally planning on writing this evening. If we set the Wayback Machine for a little over two weeks ago, you would have found me in a classroom for the first time in about thirty years learning everything about becoming a Notary Public for the Old North State and then sitting one of the…

I had hoped to write of much happier news after Katie's and Enloe's first lacrosse game of the season but this afternoon's bit of excitement really won't wait. Today was Unify which is a special club at Enloe which pairs kids with special needs with mentors for fun activities geared for them. It could be some sort of sport or crafting activity and it's a nice way for Alex and Katie to spend an extra…

Another week, yet another act of verbal self-immolation that is absolutely and breathtakingly lacking in even a modicum of self-awareness of the blatant racism being spewed. This time, "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams finds himself square in the cross-hairs of outrage with hundreds of newspapers that syndicated/reprinted the strips dropping "Dilbert" from their funny pages. Truth be told, it was hard not to be shocked that there apparently are still hundreds of newspapers in circulation in…