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CBS Sunday Morning (Brighthouse channel 6 at 9 am) featured a story about kids’ letters from camp. It was laugh-out-loud funny and so familiar. Every kid who goes to camp wrote one during their first few days. It reminded me of the old song “Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder” (sung by Alan Sherman) which in my day was very popular, right on point and also funny unless you were that kid writing the letter.

The life of an autistic child is a difficult one. Growing up is hard enough for the rest of us, can you imagine what they go through? The constant frustration and reminders of being academically behind, unable to communicate, and socially impaired, are the day-to-day factors in an autistic child's life. Continually, these children have to encounter rude behaviors, unfair treatment, and misunderstanding assumptions. All of these factors added together are the cause of the most frowned upon issue with autistic children: behavior.

Good relationships don’t just happen. I’ve heard many of my clients state that, “If I have to work at it, then it’s not the right relationship.” This is not a true statement, any more than it’s true that you don’t have to work at good physical health through exercise, eating well, and stress reduction. I’ve discovered seven choices you can make that will not only improve your relationship, but can turn a failing relationship into a successful one.

State Farm is sponsoring a video competition of unbelievable football plays caught on tape from now until Nov. 24 and the New Smyrna Beach High School 'Cudas could win with your votes online.

DANCING WITH POLITICAL PROS

Incapacitated? Your vote incorporated? Your bankroll constipated? So leave it unregulated?

If so, I would modestly propose you’re out of step. Leading you in a merry dance before a judgment panel of professional prestidigitators, you’re begging to have your feet stomped, your head whirled in dizzy, dazzling, distortions of a direction called “right” with a tune-up job attuned to democratic disaster.

Last Tuesday night was another act in the long running Kabuki theater at the City Commission meeting. According to the reports, Commissioner Jim Hathaway, supported by Mayor Adam Barringer and Commissioner Judy Reiker, voted to return the millage rate to last year's rate, thus negating the proposed rollback rate from the last meeting.

At one point in everyone’s life in Florida, they have seen the insect called a dragonfly, which are characterized by long bodies, large multifaceted eyes, and two pairs of strong transparent wings.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- I am extremely upset that the "Merchants of Flagler" are going after CRA dollars for new Christmas decorations, $42,000 to be precise. I am a merchant there.

With Glen-Beckoning enthusiasm, waving his down-with-government flags, the tea-brained American citizen is ready to vote his economic survival into the pockets of the wealthiest 2 percent of the nation at the sacrifice of his social security and Medicare.

I read Time magazine's Aug. 30 Issue, "Is America Islamophobic? What the anti-mosque uproar tells us about how the US regards Muslims." The article by Bobby Ghosh is a must read.