They should make a Sesame Street for Grown-ups.

Instead of Cookie Monster, we’d have Kashi Monster. Oscar the Grouch would live on Wall Street, and Big Bird would be a realtor. Obviously, the Count would work for either the IRS or H&R Block, and instead of numbers and letters, we’d learn all about BMI and LDL cholesterol levels. Sounds like fun, huh?
“One of [...]

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The longest way to my wallet

A word to the wise. If you are going to call me or my church and ask for help, you should make up your mind to be civil. Check your story for holes which wouldn’t make an elephant duck. Above all? Insults are NOT the way to the checkbook.
Our church has a tiny little mercy fund [...]

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Must we REALLY have this conversation??

I have been out of public education for almost 9 whole months now, but my former colleagues have managed to ignore that fact. I keep getting called to be a part of the program I helped maintain for 7 years, so it seems like I never left, and since the high school choral director is [...]

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Let me count the ways

How do they love me? Let me count the ways.
     They love me with butterfly tattoos tucked inside dime-store valentines.
     They love me with chocolate roses, and gladness that I didn’t get the job that would take me out of town and away from them.
     They love me by crawling under an old house, cutting [...]

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Into the Fire

Yesterday I did physical labor. I swear! Honest Injun! Stop laughing. OK, NOW you’re just being rude. I DO occasionally get off the sofa, in spite of the huge dent that would say otherwise.
I love fire. Did you know that there are little grnades out there, waiting to explode? They’re called “pecans.” When you rake [...]

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Damsel in Distress? Really?

Men are all alike. Honestly? Sometimes I am very grateful for that little fact. Maybe I should qualify that by saying “mature adult men,” since I DO know many whose age qualifies them for manhood who have no concept of the title. At any rate, I reiterate (hey, that rhymes. Hm): men are all alike. [...]

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Just some stuff.

For those of you whose bent is theology, or if you are simply not satisfied with the answers your church gives you to matters of faith, here’s an interesting link. I struggle with the whole faith thing for the same reason most people do, I guess: I wanna know why bad things happen to good people. [...]

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A Bit of Mercy?

A few weeks ago, I was awakened about 8 am to some monstrous caterwauling under the house. I got up, leaving Spooky and JP on the bed, and followed by Tess and Boo, and finally opened a side window to see what was going on. I looked down and saw Spooky staring up at me. [...]

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When it’s all been said and done

Today I played for the funeral of a regional icon. He was the father of a colleague, a band director who had recently been inducted into the Bandmasters’ Hall of Fame, and he was mourned by half the state. I hate funerals almost as much as I hate weddings, simply because they can range from [...]

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A Hot Shower Will Make It ALLL Better.

I have now taken three whole, long, completely marvelous showers in my new enclosure. I had no idea my house could have something so wonderful! Lest you think I now live and bathe in relative splendor, however, I remind you that nothing – NOTHING – in this house is EVER straightforward and easy. The pics [...]

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