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Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade in Strings and Lidia Poët

I’ve been searching for the name of this waltz for months! Did you ever get an ear worm? I get them a lot. I KNEW this piece. I’ve played recordings of this piece. I’ve watched movies with this music in the background and YET I couldn’t remember the name of it until I tried searching…

“I CAN’T” is NOT Allowed at My House

This is MY STORY that I never thought I’d write, because I didn’t think it was all that inspirational. It flew off the keyboard! Thanks Sharla Jacobs! I never expected this to happen because I had given up long long ago of ever finding a man (or anyone for that matter) who could challenge me to…

Silence is NOT Golden When You’re Afraid to Speak

When It comes to speaking up for yourself, what is your biggest fear? Mine used to be that my late husband would haul off and start hitting me. The Late Harry Leo Duran, MD, PH.D., MPH never really tried to stifle a rage attack. They’d come on, so he claimed, by INTRUSIVE thoughts. I can’t…

Peyote, a Drunken Sioux Medicine Man, a Snake Museum, and a Scottish Drug Dealer

For the month of May 2002, with the blessings of the then Assistant University Librarian at UTEP who just happened to be a fifth generation curandero from southern Mexico, I left El Paso to attend a Medical Librarian Conference in Dallas.  My task was to travel around Texas giving presentations on a proposal for implementing…

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My name is Barbara Ruth Campbell. I live in Spring Creek, Nevada next to the Ruby Mountains. I am a researcher, an avid reader, and am on a quest to discover the true nature of our existence.

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