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The Angels are Older
Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently? In the mid 1990s, I was living and working in my boyhood town of Boca Raton, FL. Everything was awesome. My wife and I lived on the beach in an apartment which had a ridiculously low rent.…
Ghosts in a Hurry to Fade
Rural adventures in the wilds of NC
Flowers for Florence
Some loves are transcendent
Road Not Taken
He ain’t heavy…he’s my brother
Twelve Oaks Days
Waiting for the final boarding call is a bleak existence
A Peek Behind the Curtain
I live in North Carolina, but in my heart, Florida will always be home. Not that there’s anything wrong with NC; the people are lovely, there are beaches and mountains only 2-3 hours away; there’s a change of seasons. After 28 years in the Old North State, a fire in the fireplace is still a novelty.…
Break it to Me Gently
A frantic plan to prevent a six-week grounding
My Precioussss
One does not simply march into a library and select any old book
Ollie, we hardly knew ye
My elusive dream pet, not fooled by the cat food bait
The Final Frontier
“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.” – Carl Sagan
Tax Dance
Community building around a beloved yearly ritual
Stardust
Even if you’re one in a million, there’s still 7,500 of you ~ Anonymous
The Greatest Honor
Oh, how wrong we were to think immortality never mean dying ~ Gerard Way
The Love Bug
When the newest family member just doesn’t seem to fit.
Flight of Kindness
Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle – Charles Glassman
Chaos Technique
The fine art of blowing people off
Mad Max and the Cypress Dome
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” – Robert Frost
I’ll be seeing you
Sometimes words fail you. Sometimes they don’t.
Roll me away
Not all those who wander are lost
Mountain flight
Alas, the fair creature was not meant to be caged
Debra’s Fake Boob Job
A rose by any other name
Uneasy Rider
Vito Corleone had Tom Hagen as his Consiglieri. I had my big brother.
Lawn Care for the Jaded
When I let go of lawn care, I become what I might be ~ Lao Tzu, sorta
The Stuff We Left Behind
Finding pieces of me in an unlikely place
My 700-acre Life
I can’t believe they paid me to do this stuff
Happy Trails to You
The third time wasn’t the charm
One small step
We came in peace
Hello, HGTV?
Making do with your kids as your subcontractors
The Shawshank do-over
When dreams become regrets
Time Suck …er, Share
Escaping the black hole of a timeshare pitch
Heart is where the drink is. Or something.
Life is too short for cheap root beer ~ Snoopy
Cleanup on aisle three
Psalm 91 doesn’t mention my feet on slippery floors.
Pearls before swine
“Happy is he who finds a true friend in his wife.” – Franz Schubert
We don’ need no steenken budget
The days of wine, women and song come to a pitiful end
Keeping it Fair
Have I ever unintentionally broken the law?
50 Shades of Delay
Confessions of a chronic procrastinator
Letters from home
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value” – Charles Warner
Credit card interest rates
Credit card debt is driving many to bankruptcy
Little House of Horrors
“Location, location, location – unless the neighbors are terrible.” – Unknown
Favorites
Other stuff
Homecoming
Now the distance leads me farther on Though the reasons I once had are gone ~ Jackson Browne