This Week's Column
by Terry Marotta


The Ones Who Died in August - Week of August 18 to August 25, 2008

Ode to August - Week of August 11 to August 18, 2008

MRSA - Week of August 4 to August 11, 2008


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Department of Who Cares

It was a full 20 years ago that a sixth grade teacher asked me to talk to her class about careers in Journalism..
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Pull Me Up

The little boy and I were each stretched out on a cot in the cabin across the road from our summer place..
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American Saint

American Saints Day fell last week and I must have been thinking I was a saint myself..
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People Want...

People just want to tell you their story; it’s the sweetest thing I know about the human race..
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Honor Thy Mother

Last week I was in a city that somehow feels like the mother of us all and maybe she really is that since History teaches that all life springs from a rivermouth..
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Wait, Cigarettes Are GOOD For You

Yesterday’s gasp is tomorrow’s ho-hum and things move continually in and out of style – acceptance too..
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Love is in the Air

I wonder every year in this the month of weddings what it is that binds people in marriage, really..
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