Sorry, Folks...

Due to circumstances (largely) beyond my control, I will be unable to write a blog this week. I just don’t have the time. Too many deadlines, too much going on, too many obligations. It’s simply overwhelming. 

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Friends & Coworkers

I happened to be trolling through the Guideposts.com video library today when I came across the one where Millie and Winky (Executive Editor Amy Wong’s dog) conduct a tour of the GUIDEPOSTS editorial offices in New York.

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Guideposts Gatherings

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BOO!

So, what are you going to be on Halloween?

I plan on being myself.

Before you leap to the conclusion that I am on the anti-Halloween bandwagon, rest assured that this is one of my favorite days of the year, if only because my sweet tooth gets to go on a binge.

I know Halloween has deep, dark pagan roots (my ancient, tree-worshipping relatives, the Celts, invented it) but it has morphed into something far more civilized, relatively speaking, and fun-filled.

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Firsts

A while back I asked how you first came in contact with GUIDEPOSTS. Most of you said you were introduced through the magazine (though some of you first found us online), and many of you said you either received it as a gift or you grew up with the magazine in your home.

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Warning: Devotional Writer at Work

Julee and I had just finished a frank discussion resolving an issue we were having when she tapped my arm and said, “Don’t you dare turn this into a devotional!”

It’s that time of year again, when friends and family are wary of me, when even my dog is not safe and total strangers will unknowingly fall into my literary grasp.

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Immunity Community

Why does everyone around here have a lollipop stuck in their mouths?

The nurse came to GUIDEPOSTS today, as she does every October, bearing the seasonal flu vaccine. The company pays. Anyone who wants a shot gets it. And a lollipop.

The nurse and the shots must remind everyone of grade school or something because people begin to act silly, pretending the shot hurts, trying to cut in line, taking more than one lollipop and generally acting out. 

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Photo by Jayne Wexler

Thank God for Pets!

My wife, Julee, and I don’t have kids, but we’ve had dogs for as long as we’ve been together. In fact it was Julee’s old Cocker Spaniel, Rudy, who actually introduced us one night on West 72nd Street in Manhattan, when I fatefully observed that Rudy was the fattest Cocker I’d ever laid eyes on. Julee probably would have just kept walking—can you blame her?—if Rudy hadn’t applied his considerable body weight and dragged her over to me.

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Heaven's Play-by-Play Man

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I'm a Fan of This Sweet and Inspiring Video

Fall gets my blood up, not just because it is unequivocally my favorite season but also because it is the advent of college football, and as some of you know I am a hardcore fan of the maize & blue Michigan Wolverines, my undergraduate alma mater. 

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