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Hello everyone! I hope you are poised at the precipice of a fantastic weekend! To make it just a smidgen sweeter, we’re having a raffle here at FBA. Just leave a comment with the right contents and you’re entered in the raffle. And the winner is chosen at random.
This raffle is all about BOOKS! [...]

Humans are not only complicated creatures. We are also complicating creatures. There is nothing we do that we can’t make more difficult and complex.
Just doing the basic thing is never good enough. We have to plumb the depths and reach the heights, to stretch things as far as they will go.
I asked my co-worker for [...]

We grow them inside us, know their twists and twirls, feel their hiccups, endure their kicks and push against their deep stretches into our ribs as the womb wraps them tighter and tighter.
Then labor arrives and our body muscles them out of us, one contraction at a time, until they are placed in our arms [...]

“The average man votes below himself;
he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one.
A man ought to vote with the whole of himself,
as he worships or gets married.
A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach,
his eye for faces and his ear for music;
also (when sufficiently provoked) [...]

You may have noticed one of our pages is called ‘They Said.’ What is it? So glad you asked. It’s a collection of sayings, mantras and affirmations from a wide variety of people on the interwebs. I don’t know about you but there comes a time at least once a day where I really need [...]