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When will she die?

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 19, 2017
  • Post category:Quandry
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Sometimes I listen to a despicable person - politician, commentator, talk show host - and find myself compelled to run to Wikipedia to find out how old the person is, hoping…

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Two word horror story

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 18, 2017
  • Post category:Uncategorized
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A reader on Goodreads asked me to write a two sentence horror story. Here is what I wrote:She cried out from the laundry room. "You didn't dry my sweaters, did…

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Free Dive

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 17, 2017
  • Post category:Quandry/Sports
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This is both fascinating and bizarre.Watching the video of this man free dive to the bottom of the deepest pool in the world is both mind boggling and incredible, and…

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Julian Edleman changes everything!

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 16, 2017
  • Post category:Books/Sports
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Each month my children each receive a free book from PJ Library, an organization that sends free books that celebrate Jewish values and culture to Jewish families across America and…

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Sibling love is a strange and varied thing

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 15, 2017
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Sometimes they want to kill each other, and sometimes they aggressively ignore each other, but more often than not, there are days when I walk into the room and find…

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Complacency kills.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 14, 2017
  • Post category:Autobiography
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Regardless of what I am doing or have ever done, I have always asked myself this question:"Who is better than me?"Whether I was managing a McDonald's restaurant, sitting in a…

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Lyric Problems: Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 13, 2017
  • Post category:Lyric Problems/Music
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Carly Rae Jepsen's 2016 hit song "Call Me Maybe" was a favorite of mine during the summer and fall of that year as it packed floors at weddings where I…

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“Don’t you dare…” are words most frequently uttered by morons

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 12, 2017
  • Post category:History/Politics/Religion/Words
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This is a tweet from Pastor Greg Locke, an outspoken, mouth-breathing conservative who opposes the rights of gay, transexual, and transgender Americans and has gone so far as to call…

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This is not the Jesus you learned about in Sunday School

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 11, 2017
  • Post category:Religion

The odd thing about America that so many Republicans (including the alt-right) desire is that it would absolutely reject Jesus if he were still alive today. After all, Jesus was…

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Why I say unpopular things

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 10, 2017
  • Post category:Autobiography/Film/Musicals
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I recently caused a bit of an uproar by admitting that I have never seen The Sound of Music because it looks incredibly boring. When I wrote these words on my…

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