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A Scrap of Courage
If good fences make good neighbors1 then our little subdivision was the perfect setting for neighborliness to grow. The streets were lined with rows of 70s-era ranch-style houses. The small back yards were bordered by the type of chain-link fences Texans…
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Tinker Bell
I’m thinking about Tinker Bell today…not the scantily clad tiny blonde of Disney’s animated creation, or even the glowing but rather stout fairy described by J. M. Barrie in his original story Peter Pan. I will always associate Tinker Bell with…
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Salt
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen I clipped this quote out of a magazine I was flipping through while taking a break from my writing yesterday. For a dedicated salt-lover, it caught my…
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Danny and the Laundry
It was a very stressful time in the kindergarten class at the early education school that I administered. Who knew that a little boy barely five years old could turn the whole place upside down and cause grown women to cry…
