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Changing Your Status
by Sammy Pawlak on January 29, 2010

I recently changed my political and religious status on Facebook.  It used to say “Conservative Christian” and I was fine with that, except that I realize just how broad that term is.  I changed my status to reflect that I am a “liberal conservative, or a conservative liberal, or something that doesn’t act like a cartoon character.”  And... [Read more]

Amazing Grace
by Sammy Pawlak on November 19, 2009

The Holidays are fast approaching and already I’m beginning to think about the expenses of the season.  The kids have already given me their Christmas lists, and I could have saved them some time just by writing down the name of every product sold during two hours of watching The Disney Channel or Nickelodeon.  I’ve been thinking through all the... [Read more]

Waiting to Die
by Sammy Pawlak on October 21, 2009

When are you going to die?  Would you like to live to be a certain age?  If you could choose how to die, how would you like to go? Don’t worry, I’m not in a morbid mood and I’m not depressed either.  I have been contemplating mortality the older I get.  When I was a kid I thought I’d live forever.  The only person I knew that had died was... [Read more]

Break a leg…or a neck?
by Sammy Pawlak on August 11, 2009

The entertainment world is a superstitious one.  There are funny rules like: No whistling back stage, always leave a ghost light on the stage when you leave the theater, and everyone knows you don’t say “Good Luck”, you say “Break a leg.”  Nobody really wishes someone harm as they take the stage. One of my dearest and beloved friends, Mark... [Read more]

Looking for a new lover?
by Sammy Pawlak on May 27, 2009

No, this is not a personals ad!  This week I had an interesting coversation with God.  It came after I had a strange dream that bothered me for a couple days.  In my dream I was on the phone with my wife.  Nothing extraordinary about that, we like to talk to each other frequently.  The odd thing was that I was asking her permission to go out with... [Read more]