Family is the Bestest Medicine

Thursday I was invited to a cousin’s for Thanksgiving. This year was strange in that we normally gather at my aunt’s house, the mother of the cousin, but she fell and was unable to host the feast. Long story. Anyway, these folks live in the woods…truly country folks who farm and freeze and can and [...]

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Letters from the Edge

Dear God,
I feel a little awkward praising You, cuz sometimes it seems really fake and self-serving. It’s You-serving, too, I get that, but really. Why do you need me to tell You You’re awesome? You want my praise, but I feel really stupid saying it when I don’t feel it. I really envy those who [...]

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WHO DOES this?

OK, so. Let me just start by saying that I am now getting back some of what I made my mother suffer when she was dying with a brain tumor. I torture myself knowing that I couldn’t tell how much pain she was in, and while I had morphine to give her, I didn’t. I [...]

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MIA

I’ve been distracted lately by a project that I should have finished in September. Luckily it turned out well, and the person who asked for it was pleased. I wrote a brand new choral piece for a children’s choir in Warner Robins, and it will be performed for the first time in January, in [...]

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Homer’s Engineering Dun Rite

So last night I went to a play at the local college. On the way up to the tiny little black box they call a theater, I stopped off to answer the call of nature. The light in the cove in front of the door was motion-activated, which I thought was very cool. Way neat, [...]

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Late Night at the Zoo

I have a picture of Frankie as my desktop, so every time I boot or shut down I can look at that tiny face and marvel at the miracle of his birth. I saw him come into the world, and I pray it is a very long time before I have to see him leave [...]

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Pins and Needles

Good grief. So many smart, pretty people voting to turn us into a socialist society just because a smooth talker won their ear(s). I only regret I have but one vote to cancel out the incredibly misguided.
Not much going on here, unless you count the rotted out threshold on the back door that revealed a [...]

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