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Amy’s Sassin’: STASHES novel excerpt
My mind is mostly where I converse when I’m in Jackie and Steve’s home. Maybe I’m schizophrenic, like my mom, but I think not. I have my wits about me. I try to blend into the family scene. Be pretty, be patient, be seated. Do the dishes, help Jackie when I can; bow...
Leadership
I yield to my husband, the master of details, while I perceive the nuances and the big picture. We each give the other RESPECT. as experienced in our partnership of faith, truth, and love. Oh, and great peace. I think that each of us leads from 'beside', as we...
Blizzard
It's been a remarkable year, with most of our friends and family back East snowed in and under by weather: withering heights of snow, entrenched anxiety and disheveled spirits. Daggers of ice dripping from eaves, threatening to drive stakes into Spring. The calendar...
Shake, rattle, and roll
There were nearly one hundred fifty, but it didn't matter. After the big wiggle, they were tiny, but still: The! Earth! Swayed! Peace was shattered, nerves were frayed as widely reported in the media. March was headed out like a lion, not a lamb. Casa Colando and its...
Step Child
"One of these things is not like the others; one of these things doesn't belong." Do you hear that jingle, instituted on Sesame Street on episode one, rummaging around in your brain? Does it resound, helping you to notice aspects of unique, independence, and to...
Pole barn dance
My father, a member of the Greatest Generation, proved himself at age 70 to be ‘forever young’ by building a pole barn with his brother who was 72.
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Dark Chocolate Thoughts
As women, we are all going through the same life, albeit in divergent times and tracks. Some lead lives of quiet desperation, to paraphrase a famous book. Some are like Martha and some are like Mary, as parabled in another. Some feel fully alive, bristling with...
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