Blue Puppy I was a healthy child. I was a kid before many of today’s vaccines were available. I had the mumps when I was very young, and I don’t remember being sick. I was old, 15, when I got the chicken pox. I remember that illness well. It...
Read more“You are a good listener and ask really good questions.” This is what someone recently said to me about twenty minutes after we first met. “Do you realize how interesting you are?” was my reply. I find the interesting in everyone. I’ve discovered...
Read moreWhenever I am reading something and the author mentions a place, and then starts to describe the place, and it’s a real place: I have to look it up on a map. Putting a visual location to what I’m reading enhances the story for me. Yesterday I was...
Read moreTall When I was a freshman in college, just a couple of weeks into the fall semester, my roommate Tina and I were approached by some members of the women’s crew team asking us if I wanted to come to an informational meeting. Being new on campus...
Read moreLasts My oldest son graduated from 8th grade. Now to many of you that might sound like a big deal, but for me it is. It is the last time he will be a student in the school he has been attending since kindergarten. This month has been a...
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