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All Those Stars
There I was, a long way from home, Louisiana boy trying to do some antique business with a dealer from Kansas. A plastic milk crate filled with many objects and I say, “How much
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The Ceremony Of Coffee
Her husband brought her coffee every morning. Not just when they were newlyweds, not just when things were hunky-dory, every morning, mornings after spats, mornings after she wished she could take back things she’d
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Minds Were Made To Wonder
I wonder if Hitler had a guardian angel. Do pessimists have negative blood? Ever wonder what was the best thing before sliced bread? And who put the “s” in lisp? I wonder who invented
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Bittersweet
I remember a day in my childhood, at my grandmother’s; it’s her, my aunt, my first cousin, and me, the little boy kid. They were going through a photo album, mostly black ‘n white,
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A Good Morning For Mourning
My old dog Kramer is dying, been dying all of 2016, cancer, and failing heart. She has several tumors on her right side, just before the back leg. Nothing the vet can do, but
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July In Our Neck O’ The Woods
In June kids, teachers and parents are still transitioning from the end of school, but you cross over into July, and something changes; summer gets settled and official. July is the most casual of
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Local
Local is knowing what the locals mean when they tell you to take a left at the old Sears, even when there’s no old Sears anymore. Local is knowing which bank they mean, when
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Bittersweet
I remember a day in my childhood, at my grandmother’s; it’s her, my aunt, my first cousin, and me, the little boy kid. They were going through a photo album, mostly black ‘n white,
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If I Had But One
If I had but one advice for teenage me it would be, “Your elders are smarter than they talk, steadier than they walk, and more than they do.” At 15 I saw the What,
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The Performance Of Her Life
My father answered The Call. I don’t know if they still use that phrase, but in the 1950’s, someone like my father, who was supposed to continue on in the family farming business could
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