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Abraham Lincoln, without doubt one of the strongest and most outstanding men in the history of our country, was born in Kentucky 216 years ago today. There may be no one in our country’s history about whom more has been written, more than 60,000 volumes according to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. It would be presumptuous of me to believe I could add anything to that noble library.
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My late wife, in this snippet, referred to as “BBBH,” and I for more than a decade spent our winters in South Texas. I wrote the following piece one Friday morning thirteen years ago this week.
Asking Eric
Dear Eric: I stayed in an abusive marriage for too long, and for a wide variety of reasons, including that we needed my ex’s income and health insurance to cover chronic medical needs.
Slices of Life ‘Victim or victor’
This life provides challenges for all of us. They can be beyond difficult. And unexpected. And unfair.
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I had a newly minted diploma asserting that I had completed the requirements for graduation from high school. I was not yet eighteen years of age, but I was now a man. (This is the sort of thing seventeen-year-old boys are prone to believe.) Thus, I packed a tin suitcase with a few items of clothing and hit the road. A one-day stint in Colby, Kansas erecting grain bins, heat in excess of one hundred degrees, was sufficient to convince me that there had to be a better way to earn a livelihood.
Social Security Matters
Ask Rusty – Clarification of Medicare IRMAA and MAGI
Social Security Matters
Dear Rusty: I am 65 and currently working full-time. Can I apply for and start receiving my Social Security benefit? I’d expect to have to pay income tax on it if/when I do. Signed: Curious Worker
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On January 22, 613, Constantine was crowned emperor of the Roman Empire. He was eight months of age.