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Every year I buy an advent calendar to help me count down the days until Christmas. More than that, though, it brings me a delight…
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Life is trade-offs….it is probably nothing but trade offs, if the truth be known. I traded a conventional life with kids and homemaking to be…
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When I first looked at the old film strips of Nazi parades, the people looking at them lovingly, cheering madly, making that same, stiff armed…
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When it comes down to it, she hasn't kept anything. Not the china or the silverware, not the enormous flat-screen television she never wanted in…
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To be honest, I'd never even heard of the term "social isolation" until this whole virus took hold of all of our lives and everything…
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We don’t seem to like one another very much anymore in America. Not like we did before COVID, and not like we did before Trump.…
I think my great character fault – well, one of them, anyway – was that I had no dream. I mean I had no hell-bent,…
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I think my great character fault – well, one of them, anyway – was that I had no dream. I mean I had no hell-bent,…
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We are all limited by what we think we deserve .....and when it comes to the knowledge of our futures, we are all limited by…
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We don’t seem to like one another very much anymore in America. Not like we did before COVID, and not like we did before Trump.…
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Oh for one true sentence. That may not even have been an actual sentence. Hemingway said it. I think I was sitting in the library…
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Maybe it was less than two weeks ago, more like 10 days. We took Guinness, my long-haired black cat with a bit of white on…
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It was a strange trip. I tried so hard to be loveable, to be the person he would love the way he once did. I’d…
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Our true Self is a weak, fragile and tender thing….prone to easy injuries….scared that daylight might burn us. And so, as early as we can,…
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He was peevish and restless, drooling, a first tooth far away under this bone trying to make its way out. I sat him on top…
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When I am presented with the subject of health care, my response is always, "You know I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 because he…
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When I was 23, I followed Gwen from civilized Massachusetts to a remote cattle ranching area in the high cold sagebrush desert of northern Nevada,…
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True outrage is a great cleansing experience, at least for the truly outraged. It isn’t only catharthic, it is transformative. Outrage is like sexual climax,…
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We had been rehearsing and performing QUILTERS all over the country and everywhere we went, audiences, enchanted by the stories of our brave pioneer women…
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