“I don’t want to call God an idiot or anything,” I told Ivan, “but if I had created the world, I would have done things differently.” Someone I love made a choice that hurt me, and that is why I said it. “I guess he could have made us all puppets,” Ivan said. Puppets, yes…but […]
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My mom is the one who smiles at strangers. Genuine, from her eyes smiles—and they respond. My dad barks at dogs in the streets. Not quiet, tentative barking—loud listen-up yapping. The dog owners ignore him and the dogs usually do, too. He notices people, asks strangers random questions like, “Are you pretty good with that
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A reader from Ontario sent this picture and quote, and said if I wanted to, I could share them with you. I wanted to. So I did.
Snapshots from my summer, random and rich: I sit in the quiet of the nursing home at night. Small sounds are large. A fan hums. The refrigerator. The rustle of the nurse shuffling papers. An alarm sounds loud, and I leap to answer it, cocking my ears to the right and to the left as
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My life has up and run away on me again. But luckily I have interesting friends, and when I can’t find the time to write a blog post, sometimes they supply them. Marlene is a friend I’ve met only through email, and I enjoy her thoughts whether random, humorous, or deep. I liked the email she
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