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Tilting at Windmills: Favorite Movies

When you weren’t looking, I decided to conduct a survey among my friends to ask which are their favorite movies. ..


Tilting at Windmills : Improve Your Sex Life with Fire Safety Tips

Ha. Fooled you into reading this column. Fire safety won’t do a single thing to make you more alluring (although ..


Tilting at Windmills : Firemen - The Ultimate Philosophical Question

I am addicted to audio books. I honestly could not prepare a single meal or dust a single knickknack unless ..


Tilting at Windmills : Nancy Drew - Seeker of Mysteries

I am holding in my hot little hand a book with a dark blue cover called “The Secret at Shadow ..


Tilting at Windmills: NUMB3RS

“We just want people to better understand the world they live in.” Cheryl Heuton Proving once again that, culturally, I am ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS: A tale of two friendships: Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – ENCORE

Imagine that I have just snapped my fingers and demanded, “Quick. Without thinking first, name the greatest magician who ever ..


Tilting at Windmills: A Love Story- Of Sorts

The Martindale property was 25 acres of farmland with a pretty three-story residence on a grassy knoll overlooking hills, hedgerows, ..


Tilting at Windmills: A Glorious Error

“...the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets.” Charles Dickens. 1812 - 1870 I was at ..


Tilting At Windmills: In Defense of Discrimination

“The scientist … shows his intelligence, if any, by his ability to discriminate between the important and the negligible.” Hans ..


Tilting at Windmills: Rat-a-Tat Tat

After I endured a cacophony of thwacks and thumps upon my back, my chiropractor ended our session wth a rat-a-tat-tat ..


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