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Woman, 88, gets diploma 7 decades after leaving Arkansas high school during senior year

By The Associated Press Posted: December 5, 2016 at 9:54 a.m. LAKE WALES, Fla. — An 88-year-old woman who was just two half-credits shy of graduating high school but had to drop out has received a high school diploma some seven decades after the fact. The Lakeland Ledger on Monday reported that Ellen Marie Weddle, who now lives in Florida, received a diploma from Bradford High School in Arkansas last month. Weddle was a senior at the high school in Bradford in 1943 when her family moved to Michigan as her father looked for work. Her mother died not long after that, and she gave up hope of ever getting a high school diploma. In July, Weddle wrote to the...

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Candles for Men (and the women that love them)

We're always looking for good products from hard-working folks. Fortunately, we found Wax & Wick. These guys take candle making seriously, and best of all, they are hand-crafted in Chicago, IL.  We've partnered with them to bring the best of the candle world to our site and our customers. Check out a recent post from their blog: NO Cheesy Man Candles, NO Floral Scents, Use Our REAL Scents to Upgrade Your Space January 07, 2016 We at Wax & Wick have discovered, through extensive research, that making a candle for a man or for a woman is a faux pas. Men are interested in REAL scents just as women are TIRED of floral scents. Our candles are made in micro-batches to...

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Beards Need Lovin Too

Beards Need Lovin Too.  Yes they do.  Our site always wanted to carry men's grooming products for all types of scruff, but we didn't want to develop it ourselves.  If we are going to carry someone's products, they have to be made in the USA.  Fortunately, we came across the brand Lucky Scruff.  Not only do they produce the stuff all facial hair needs, all of their oils, soaps, and waxes are hand crafted in Nashville, TN. Corey Allen, the founder and owner of Lucky Scruff, has some great posts on his blog about how to use their products.  So if you have questions about how to use your soaps, oils, waxes, or brushes, click here to learn more. Still...

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The Definition of Hard Work

This site and brand was inspired by this story.  This guy knew what he wanted, and made it his life's mission to achieve it.  Successful by any man's measure, he's the definition of hard work and perseverance.  The following was taken from The Steamboat Pilot published on July 31, 1952. Norton Jacobs has set his sights on becoming a rancher – and he’s doing it the hard way. Young Jacobs’ home is in Steamboat, but the 15-year-old lad spends every weekend during the school year and every summer with his grandfather, Val R. More, at his Pleasant Valley ranch. Jacobs will be a sophomore in the Steamboat High school this fall and will enroll then in his second year as...

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