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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Ann S. Eckert

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Ann S. Eckert, 85, of Port Charlotte, FL, died on Monday, April 7, 2025, at Advent Hospital in Port Charlotte, FL.  She was born in Madison,...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Two Great Mysteries of Life: Solved

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There are at least two great mysteries of life:  What is its purpose? and Why did great civilizations fail? I figured out the first a long t...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

The Prosecution failed to Make Its Case Against OJ.

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O J Simpson passed away from prostate cancer on April 15.  The papers and TV were full of rehashing his guilt so I sent the following to the...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Reminder of the bad old days

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  In 2008, Robyn Carr wrote a novel entitled VIRGIN RIVER CHRISTMAS.  In it, she portrayed a vet from the second Iraq war begun during the G...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

The Definition of "woke"

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Gov. DeSantis has offered a negative, indecipherable definition of what it is to be woke.  Yes, the way the word is used, it comes over from...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

The GOP's Other Tactic

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  We enjoy BLUE BLOODS on TV.  I wondered why NewsNation plays it many hours of the day. I found I could not stand watching its news program...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Six things that really happened and I think are funny

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  My first Sunday at my first appointment was exciting, of course.  I wasn't sure how I would be received but things had gone well at th...
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Jerry Eckert
I write/edit both Jerry's Place and the blog for Associates in Advocacy (AIA). I get only one profile to put in both. For more on AIA, go to their website. Born in 1935, I was raised mostly in Waukesha, WI. I attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and in Madison for a BS in Anthropology (1958). SMU's Perkins School of Theology granted me a BD in 1962. By then, Ann and I had been married three years. I served churches in Wisconsin. We adopted David (1965) and Karen (1968). I received a Masland Fellowship in 1967 and attended Union Theological Seminary in New York for a school year. In 1985, Ann went to New Orleans in a career move and I took five years' leave of absence. In 1990, we returned to pursue our careers in Wisconsin and retired in 1995, moving back to Slidell, LA, where we had previously lived. I focussed on writing and Associates in Advocacy responsibilities. In 2003, we moved to Port Charlotte, FL, to take care of Ann's mother and stayed on after she passed away. Surviving Hurricane Charlie, we live in active retirement.
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