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Making 1000 Cranes – Restoring Harmony to our World

A story and an invitation to join me in making 1000 cranes as an artistic and spiritual endeavor to restore peace, harmony, livingness and beauty to our world during this

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The Devil Eats Purina

The Devil Eats Purina My girlfriend got a dog six weeks ago — a Chihuahua. I don’t hate the dog, but I’m not wild about him. I’ve almost stepped on

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Leo – Shining Like the Sun

Happy Birthday, Leo. Leo is the sign that shines like the Sun. It’s the sign of creativity, of children, games, having fun, taking risks. Most of all, Leo is sign

Male Call

How to treat the outdated pleat

Q. I have to go to a wedding and the only appropriate suit I have has pleated trousers. I neither can afford nor want to buy a suit just for

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The silk jacket

Q. At my local thrift store there is a jacket that looked particularly good and fit me perfectly, but then I saw that it was made of silk (in a

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MC Yammer

MC Yammer My friend won’t stop talking about her new crush, and it’s driving me up the wall. I was annoyed, but now I’m getting increasingly angry, and I don’t

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Strange and Dangerous Times

We are in times we’ve never experienced before. The turmoil due to the changing of the Ages (Pisces to Aquarius) and the darkness of the Kali Yuga are in full

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hide I’m a 30-year-old gay man with a new boyfriend. He is a total social butterfly: the kind of person who shows up to a bar

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Evoking Our Wisest Choice

There is a book call the Labors of Hercules. It depicts a man, Hercules, encountering twelves experiences, lessons and tests under the twelve signs of the zodiac. Hercules represents humanity

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Collar stays are here to stay

Q. Your recent button-down collar shirt column was a lovely piece for a boy from Little Rock who arrived at Yale without having seen a “button down,” but adjusted as