Not long ago, my friend and his wife were showing pictures of their renovated basement to his 90-year-old father and 78-year-old mother. The mother looked at two plants in the picture and asked my friend what they were. He said, “They’re marijuana plants, Mom.” The parents were mortified. The mother told my friend she was […]
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Since 2001, the New England Patriots have played in six Super Bowls and won four. They’re back in the AFC Championship Game for the fifth season in a row and tenth time in the past 15 years. If they beat the Denver Broncos on Sunday, they’ll be making their second straight trip to the Super Bowl and seventh in
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Yavapai College, located in Clarkdale, Arizona, serves as a model for innovative and visionary thinking at the community college level. Over the past several years, the school has implemented a viticulture program, the only one in the state of Arizona, and planted twenty acres of wine-producing grape vines. This supports the local community, which is
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Fifty Shades of Green, a book by Sandra Knauf, is a feminist/gardener response to that other book. It’s a wonderfully entertaining anthology of twelve naughty gardening stories with strong female protagonists. The talented authors of these tales hail from across the U.S. and Britain—and most are genuine hands-in-the-dirt gardeners. US Represented caught up with Sandra to
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On his weekday radio talk show in January of 2015, former Carolina Panthers general manager Marty Hurney addressed the controversy regarding 11 of 12 footballs being under-inflated during the AFC Championship Game. He said, “To me, this isn’t about ‘Deflategate.’ This isn’t about anything having to do about any particular game last week. And it certainly
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←To “PB Waves” Dylan sat by Glenda’s bed, holding her frail hand. He double-checked her IV line to make sure morphine was flowing properly from the suspended bag, through the tube, and into her vein. The alarm clock on the nightstand read 4:45 a.m. He stared into Glenda’s sunken eyes and said, “I love you,