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Published In The Great North Arrow, February 1, 2025: What Is Love?

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What Is Love? - jim young Happy Valentine’s Day to the lighting bolt I had been waiting all my life for - My Shirley. “I thought Love was only true in fairy tales…” Neil Diamond   I could have written that. Assuming I was as brilliant as Neil Diamond, that is. What I mean is - "Love was out to get me, that’s the way it seemed. Disappointment haunted all my dreams.” Okay – I’ll stop plagiarising Neil Diamond now. It's just that "I'm A Believer" so perfectly described my Love life as a teen. Everyone had girlfriends - except for me. And, being the romantic I have always been, I so desperately wanted to be in Love.  Sure there were girls that I dated. And they were all very nice. But I was looking for that lightning bolt that was going to knock me off my feet. We can no more “choose to Love” than we can “choose NOT to Love”.  For as Kahil Gibran wrote, “Think not you can guide the course of Love. For Love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.” This was...
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Published In The Great North Arrow, March 1, 2025: Trains, Planes And Automobiles - While You Wait

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  Trains, Planes And Automobiles - While You Wait - jim Young “Wilbur Force: I'd almost rather go to the dentist than anywhere, wouldn't you?  Seymour: Yeah.  Wilbur Force: Now, no novocaine. It dulls the senses.” -  Charles B. Griffith With the possible exception of Wilbur Force played by Jack Nicholson in the 1960 version of “Little Shop Of Horrors” and Drew Barrymore who once confessed to Johnny Carson that the crush she had on her dentist was just ONE of the reasons she likes to go to the dentist, nobody but nobody enjoys going to the dentist. Seriously. Have you or anyone you know ever looked forward to a visit to the Dentist’s office? How many times have I laid in the dentist chair with my mouth uncomfortably open, thinking “Why am I paying someone to inflict such agony on me?” Dynamic Dentistry goes to great lengths to dull that pain as much as possible and it doesn’t involve laughing gas or sedation. As I was accompanying my wife, who had an appointment for ...
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