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Life can be overwhelming.Politics, greed, the environmentswallow our attention;they pound us, relentlessly,until we want to crumble in despair.Amid this unending battering,we have our everyday lives to live,with our everyday joys…
Who doesn’t love ice cream?I’m sure there are some,but I don’t think I’ve ever met anyonewho hates ice cream.I mean, what’s there to hate?It’s almost etched into our DNA.It’s one…
I saw you last night.You were laughing,hard and loud,with your whole body.It wasn’t at all like the last time I saw you,when you lay quietlystruggling to breatheyour last breaths.I will…
My father was a shy manuntil you got to know him.Then he was happy to talkabout anything—things you were interested inappealed to his curiosity,things that he was passionate about,like history…
There was something in the air.She knew she’d sensed it before,but couldn’t put her finger on when or where.Sitting in the gardenwith the sun warm on her face,the scent of…
My mother taught me many things,though not so many domestic chores.Though she was a good cook,sewed a neat stitch, and kept our house clean enough to be healthy whiledirty enough…
I look out the windowto see new buds on treesand daffodils in bloom.But Mother Nature is weeping;heavy tears run down the glass.She keeps trying to tell usthe right things to…
I’ve been high on drinknow and then.Never to excess becausethe consequences exceeded any joy that might be found there.Especially since the truthis the easiest and best response;I was high on…
No one knocked on the door.No one rang the door bell.The phone never rang—even the scammers had given up.The only mail in the boxcame from charities begging, “Give me money!…
I was named for my paternal grandmother,born almost 150 years ago.She was still alive when I was born,though I never had the chance to know her,except through stories my parents…
