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We all experience tough times.

This time of year, many conspicuous characters abound.

INDIANAPOLIS – Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre’s one-hour production of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, opens Friday.

This photograph, believed to have been taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s, shows three women outside of the Mangas Cafeteria.

For much of my life, I’ve been the inviter.

What do you suppose The Boy encountered when he showed up in September to start sixth grade?

Dear Amy: I was raised in a very abusive environment.The abuse was very seriously physical on my dad’s side, and mentally and emotionally on my mom’s.I left home at 17.

My "writing" often occurs in the wee hours of the morning as I lie abed longing to be held in the arms of Morpheus but nevertheless gratified that since the mind will not shut down usable ideas sometimes impinge themselves upon my consciousness.Some of the material you see here on Plain Vanilla was produced in just this manner.