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It's on my wish list for the disposition of remains. I want the organs to be recycled (as many as possible). Then, when everything has been removed, I want the bones to be kept and I want to be turned into a hanging, articulated skeleton. MORE L8R

It's a word that pushes buttons. Admit it! Your buttons were pushed, weren't they? cult [kuhlt] noun a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers. the physical fitness cult....

You'd think I were part of a comedy routine with some of the random things I have told people. Sometimes, there's nothing worse than an introvert who can't seem to be understood when he speaks his native language. For whatever reason, when I say that I was a German major in college, people seem to think that I was in the military of that...

So I paid off two credit cards and asked the teller how I could get an ATM card. "You mean a debit card?" she asked. "Yeah." "You can either do it online. Or you could call the bank. Or you could make an appointment with one of our customer associates." So I'm about to hit the door while looking bewildered and two employees that were chatting...

I had an English professor in the early 80s who had returned home (NYC) after teaching in Texas. She still had the Lone Star plates on her car. She was teaching poetry (that is to say, teaching her students how to write it). She shared a piece of a poem she had written about the husband she had divorced: Death is the price of life. Lives...