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The Change Train Is Chuggin’ Down The Track
Change is an interesting creature. I call it “creature” because it’s a dynamic, living, breathing, sometimes-monster-appearing thing that can embrace me like an unwelcome hug. It can feel warty and weird because it’s not often invited. Rarely appreciated. Often reviled. Kind of like a politician. Change can bring wonderful opportunities for fun and adventure.…
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If It Looks Alive, Is It Really A Zombie?
Having been away from home for a chunk of time this summer–away from the responsibilities of maintaining said home–we came back to surprises. Should have been expectations. Dead–or mostly dead–cockroaches flopped belly up in various nooks and crannies. The legs still wiggling on some. Old milk in the refrigerator that no one bothered to…
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We Are Family
Every man, woman and child has begun the same way. I’m no biology wizard, but I do have six kids. It takes an egg and a sperm to make a human. The combined effort of a man and woman–however that might look. We all have family–the biological reality that our individual gene pools are made…
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When Love Fills Your Heart
Loss is never easy. When people leave our lives, whether through moving or loss of relationship, it’s tough to process. When someone leaves because of death, the grief takes a new twist. The reality of not seeing that person again in this life speaks with a finality that hurts deeply. Things left unsaid, gestures…
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Garbage Happens
Who knew so much trash could accumulate in such a short period of time? Garbage collection has become an organized definitive science. Up until the first of the year, we could put anything at the curb, and it would be picked up by our gracious sanitary engineers. January 1st we were issued new bins that…
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