IT WAS THE BEST OF DAYS, IT WAS THE WORST OF DAYS
(reposted from 2019) What I have always called, “the best day/the worst day” actually began the...
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Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s something else, but lately I’ve been obsessively fantasizing, and even...
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I’ve learned quite a bit so far, in the five weeks of quarantine; things about others...
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LISTEN and/or READ In May, in the year 1889 (10 years prior to the construction...
Continue ReadingPANDEMIC PASSION WEEK
I sit in my house during week four of this “season of sequestering”, this “Lent of...
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By request, I am recounting the story of “FERN SUNDAY” (an unofficial observance of my own;...
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I am, by nature, an introvert. It seems strange to people who know me well, but...
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I was in my car, on my way to Indianapolis. I was in the right-hand lane...
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I was a small boy who could barely read when my mother began instilling in my...
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(reprinted from June 2019) During my college years, in Seattle, I played the piano and sang...
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