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Confessions of a Sugar-Cereal Binger

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Fact checked by Derick Wilder There I was. The end of the day. My work was done, the kids were in bed, the dishwasher was running, and I had just finished folding the laundry while watching television. An alert on my phone went off: 10 p.m. — bedtime.  If I had an ounce of willpower, […]

A Big Headache

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The insurance assurance Fact checked by Shannon Sparks When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, I felt a wave of relief. “Finally!” I said to anyone willing or close enough to listen, “This is going to expose the massive failures in our healthcare system, and we’ll come out of this better than before.”  It really looked that […]

Talking Guns with a First Grader

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Fact checked by Derick Wilder   When I was a kid, my parents had simple parenting fears. Dad was anxious for my brothers and me to find a career path that inspired us and afforded us the life we wanted. Mom, that we’d get cancer or die in a car crash. While those things concern me […]