Sometimes I look at people like my own sweet grandma and my mother in law, who are both in their 80’s, with a pleasant sort of condescension. Their lives revolve around their quilt blocks and their canning and what the neighbor said. For news, they read the Budget. (For the unenlightened, that’s a 50-page weekly […]
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I’ve been so busy the past couple of months, poor Charlie hasn’t gone anywhere. He’s just sat in his little cubby between my desk and the office window, no doubt feeling sorely neglected. Hopefully, he takes the message on my coaster (it says “Practice Patience”) to heart. In spite of busy-ness, we have made time
“About me, you can do it this way,” they say. Instead of “As far as I’m concerned…” or “I like…” as I’ve always heard it before. “I don’t know did it come down or not,” they say—and they are not asking a question. The words carry the same meaning and inflection as, “I don’t know
Since we lost our small one (you can read that post here), I have been thinking a lot more about Charlene, my darling little old lady friend who died. I like to picture the two of them together somewhere in a place I can’t quite get my mind around–but that doesn’t matter as much as
Ten years ago, you wouldn’t have wanted to get on the wrong side of Paul Lansing. An ex-Marine who’d trained for 35 years in martial arts, he was a hulk of a guy with a demeanor that said, “Don’t mess with me.” Nowadays, if you were to see him with his neighbor’s children cuddled up
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