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What’s your superpower?

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Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It’s … you? Believe it or not, we all have a superpower, sometimes more than one. Our superpowers are talents, our inborn abilities, enhanced by education, practice, and life experience.

Woodpile Therapy

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This has been a truly weird winter no matter how you view things. Mostly milder than usual, delivering more rain than snow, with a weekly roller-coaster — sometimes daily! — of up-and-down weather swings.

Anticipatory grief

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Most people don’t have to grieve the loss of a loved one until after that person has passed away. But family caregivers who look after someone with a degenerative disease like Alzheimer’s, ALS, or Parkinson’s, may face grief in a very different, and sometimes far more painful way.

Remembering Julie Overton

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Julie Overton lived in Yellow Springs most of her adult life. She got into the field of genealogy almost by accident. Someone asked for help seeking an ancestor. Overton found information and in time did considerable research for others. She was president of the Ohio Genealogical Society and became head of the Greene County Room at the Greene County Library, where she helped many people with their research into family history. She had a habit of saying “Good morning” no matter what time of day she greeted anyone. She said it made people stop and think a minute. She was an inspiration to other when she would say “You can do that.”

A Chia Pet hair moment

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“You know, since I’ve been eating these chia seeds, I’ve noticed my beard has gotten heavier.”

Great expectations

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Everyone has expectations and they can have a profound effect on how we perceive reality. Unmet expectations can lead to disappointment, hurt feelings, and even anger. Conversely, those we achieve can leave us feeling fulfilled and successful.

Flying into remembrance

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This is a true story about a group of people who nearly had their history stolen from them.

Remembering Edward Warren

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Edward Warren was one of the early settlers in Silver Creek Township having been listed in the 1816 enumeration. He had been a soldier of the American Revolution serving as a private in the First Regiment of foot from the state of Pennsylvania. In 1820, at the age of 71, he petitioned the government for a pension due to the fact that he had been honorably discharged because his left hand was crippled due to the fact that he received a wound from a ball during battle. He served a total of 16 months in the Army before being discharged on account of his injury.

John Grindrod: Travel, despite the occasional familiarity, is always different

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Certainly, there are so many different ideas about the best way to use our leisure time when it comes to packing what was called a grip in earlier times and taking to the highway or the skies. While many are comforted by the familiarity of sojourning to the same locale, there are others who steadfastly prescribe to the notion that, in a life so very short — as compared to the lifespan of the giant tortoise named Jonathan, a resident of the remote island of St. Helena, who turned 191 last month — travel experiences should vary.

My old man’s opera glasses

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I am, by nature, an early riser. My internal alarm goes off at 5 a.m. whether I want it to or not. That tendency was a real problem in my younger days. Often, I would stay up all night observing the stars with some hastily slapped-together telescope of my own devising.

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