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Deals effectively and fearlessly with political issues, current affairs, poetry, short stories and general subject matter with a view to being informative.

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In memoriam of my beloved Great-Aunt, “Aunt Millie”!

By Stanley Collymore Your valued life here on earth inevitably reached its end but the durable and cherished remembrances of the immense good that you did whilst among us; what you clearly and conscionably stood for and tirelessly, in frequently difficult...

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Make this promise to yourself!

By Stanley Collymore I’ll lift my eyes up to the stars and venture to attain my genuine ambitions, but in doing so I won’t ever allow myself to be blinded by pointless daydreams or unrealizable expectations, assuredly always keeping both feet firmly planted...

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The greatest stimulus to self-confidence is honesty with one’s self!

By Stanley Collymore Though you assume the right to moan often but usually in private about the difficulties you regularly face the stark and challenging truth is that you seldom, if ever, like so many others do rarely bother to scrutinize the possibilities...

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Grandmothers happen, okay? But Grandmas are lovingly and skilfully created!

By Stanley Collymore There are Grandmothers and there are also Grandmas; at first glance and on the face of it there’s no distinction between the two terms of expression it would seem, but that’s where you’re wrong a thousandfold. Since in any household...

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Why should western leaders bother about terrorism when they benefit hugely from it?

By Stanley Collymore What God or religion for that matter authorizes or condones the gratuitous killing, no the sadistic slaughter of innocent civilians, some of them mere children that hadn’t as yet even begun to properly live their lives let alone start...

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Meaningful change of any sort begins within ourselves!

By Stanley Collymore You obviously don’t know me for we haven’t properly met or been formally introduced to one another even though we’ve seen each other around for some time now and, as such, there’s always the possibility I assume that like many in...

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A New Year’s Prayer

By Stanley Collymore Almighty God as a new year dawns and the present one marches inexorably on to its close and inevitably into the permanent archives of the past closely accompanied by the revered or otherwise best forgotten memories of events that...

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A walk on the seamier side of Christmas

By Stanley Collymore Don’t talk to me about Christmas, Santa Claus or his reindeer as I’ve had enough of the hypocrisy that surrounds them every year; for I’m one of the long-term unemployed who’s destitute and full of despair, as it’s quite obvious to...

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The failed resolve to keep promised New Year resolutions

By Stanley Collymore Another year unwaveringly beckons with yet more hopes entertained and pledges given, as were similarly promised in previous years, of a brand new start in the offing, rekindling in the process the ritual act of deluding yourself that...

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The Miracle of that very first Christmas

By Stanley Collymore Pubescent in years she’s known to be engaged to a man several years older than she is. Meanwhile she gets pregnant though not by the man she betrothed to, and what’s more she audaciously tells him this all happened in mysterious circumstances...

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