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I originally posted this piece about two years ago.  At the time, I thought that the use of the word "journey", as in, "It's been a journey" or "I'm on a journey",  had reached critical mass. Oh, how wrong I was.  Since then, the number of people on journeys, and the number of times we…

One of the most disturbing hallmarks of growing older is the sad and shocking realization that younger people don't relate to your cultural touchstones. This realization was never more evident to me than this week.  Because this week, Shirley Temple died. The minute I saw the headline crawl across the bottom of my tv screen,…