Remembering Michael…

It’s interesting how,
once a love affair has ended,
and the anger
has seeped away
and the dust has settled,
I, all of a sudden,
can remember
the good times
a whole lot better than the bad ones…
Like the time
when he wrote “I LOVE YOU”
in giant letters in the snow
and then called from work
to tell [...]

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No More Ms. Nice Guy!

Is there such a thing as being too polite?  Too nice?  Too thoughtful?  I’ve come to the sorry conclusion that there is…and I’m guilty of all of the above.  I can’t really take all the blame, though.  That was the way I was brought up.  My dad had this old-fashioned idea that he wanted well-behaved [...]

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Too Close for Comfort: A Nose Saga

We’ve all had it happen.  You’ll be standing in line and happen to glance at the person next to you and unconsciously cringe.  Maybe the person is standing there, all innocent and everything, unaware that they have a big booger hanging out of their nose!  Or, (and this one always gets me,) the person has [...]

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Christmas Sunrise

I began my Christmas morning by slipping out and taking these shots of the sunrise from my front porch.
And in the chilly stillness, where virtually “not a creature was stirring,” it was so easy to remember the real reason for the season – the birth of the blessed Christ child…
Happy Birthday, Jesus!  May we one [...]

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Random “Happy” Things…

Sometimes it really is the “little” things that help make life bearable.  You know what I mean?  We get so much bad news from the media, that we don’t always stop and acknowledge the small, but important, things that make us feel a little better about everything, so that’s what I’ve decided to do here.  [...]

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A Christmas Kindness

Just when I begin to think that I’m turning into a Scroogy old cynic, life turns around and surprises me…
Friday I had just gotten home from lunch with my friend, the Delightful Dee, when I noticed the answering machine blinking.  The message was from a florist delivery service, saying they had tried to deliver flowers [...]

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The Land of Lost Stuff?

I remember vividly the first time it  happened to me.  I was in my first apartment assembling a piece of furniture, maybe a bookcase, I can’t remember.  At any rate, I had the pieces laid out on the living room floor in nice piles and the instruction sheet was right in the middle of the [...]

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Winter: the Brat of the Seasons!

Wow.  I’ve never seen my indoor weather station record an outdoor temperature of one degree before…until now.  It’s kind of spooky.  I mean, if you get stuck outside in this kind of cold, you could die!   Seriously!
As a matter of fact, I’ve long suspected that, among all the seasons, Winter is the one who is [...]

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And Good Will To All?

I’ll never understand people!  Maybe it’s the season or maybe it’s just that it takes all kinds, I don’t know…
Anyway, I had to take a package to the Post Office yesterday and was pleasantly surprised that they had three postal workers working the counter, and the line was moving.  While I was talking to my [...]

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My New Best Friend

Recently I’ve written about  how I was worried about my emotional state this Christmas, in view of the fact that this past year has not been the best in my life.  Well, I’m pleased to report that lately I’ve been doing really well!  And, in part, I owe this surprising development to some advice I [...]

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