Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 27, 2014 in Blog |

The NFL’s toughest player isn’t who you might think. This weekend, as he starts his final game of what’s been a nightmare season, my vote goes to the bruised, battered, and too-often beaten quarterback of the hapless New York Jets — Geno Smith.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 26, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews, Politics |

There’s no such thing as “normal.” We all look and act differently. Each of us perceives things separately. All of us think in unique ways. Each one of us must contend with the influences which shape our lives and mold us into becoming individuals. No one’s single experience, nor a reaction to it, is quite the same. Hence, being “normal” becomes an apparition.
Normality does not exist.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 25, 2014 in Blog, Personal |

By the looks of me and the things that I do, one would assume I’m a Christian believer. Every year, I put up a Christmas tree and hang up pretty lights and decorations. I’ve committed most of the verses of popular Christmas songs to memory. I attend Christmas shows, even those held inside churches. I send out Christmas cards to friends and family. I buy presents. My heart is filled with joy. I even get sentimental.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 25, 2014 in Blog, Personal |

When it comes to celebrating Christmas, the secular humanist community is divided. That premise and its impacts will the basis of this two-part article.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 24, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

We are never prepared for what we expect. So wrote novelist James A. Michener. That thought sums up the life-transforming excursion in pursuit of self-awareness, some might even say an identity, ventured by writer Cheryl Strayed back in 1995, when she embarked upon a grueling three-month, 1,100-mile journey entirely by foot, along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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