Category: Auto-biographical
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Mushy Squishy
Mushy Squishy was nothing like its name led you to believe – although it desperately wanted to be a soft and lovable toy – a really mushy squishy thing. It longed to take any shape you wanted it to – I guess it aimed to please. It thought that the more it let you poke…
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A Blip on the Radar (Part 5) “Near-Miss “
A Blip on the Radar (5) “Near-Miss “ Some stories are so extraordinary, that there is no need to invent, embellish, ‘dress up’ or exaggerate. The simple truth in itself is so staggering, that no fiction writer could possibly -ever- dream up such an extravagant tale. This snapshot describes an event that actually…
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Dock and a Dirty Rat
I believe I have mentioned in passing, my great-grandfather, aka as “Dock”. From all that I ever heard or read about him, he was one of those men who stands apart from the rest. I imagine they called him Dock because Augustus Cicero was, well – more than a mouthful, if you know what I…
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Loving Extravagantly – A Glimpse of Forever
8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. The Bible – 1 Corinthians 13:8-9 Having been…
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I am Life Without Boundaries
“This body is not me. I am not caught by this body. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born. I will never die. Look at me. Look at the stars and the moon. All of them are me, are manifestations of me. So smile to me, take my hand, say goodbye that…
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Riding on The City of New Orleans
Riding on The City of New Orleans Back in the nineties, I rode the train made famous in the song ” The Train they Call the City of New Orleans” departing the Big Easy and all the way to the Windy City. It all started innocently enough. I had a close friend and colleague in…
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Edwina and the Hot Grits!
Some cheeky person just made this story come to mind. Has that ever happened to you? Thinking or talking about something else and poof…up pops a story that is not really related. Anyway – I guess that’s how the glorious, sleep-deprived, slightly aging mind works, eh? This is just a little story – but I…
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Here’s to you, Nesse Godin
Nesse Godin is just a woman who personifies the best of what is in us all. She is a survivor of the Holocaust – but even more pertinently, she was at the desk to speak to children in the Holocaust Museum when the attack began. Once more, Nesse survived. I just got through watching a…
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Nefesh a`hat mi-bnei adam
I cannot begin to tell you how troubled I am about this most recent ‘hate crime’ – the shooting in the Holocaust museum. Of course, I can’t tell you that it is any worse or better than the others – just more of the same. Walk into a church and murder in cold blood a…
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Cookie and the Cupcakes – for Carmen
Damn. I just found out that my wonderful, dedicated, hard-working and lovely friend Carmen died Saturday from cancer. Well, that just takes the wind out of my sails for the day, I’ll tell you. This is the second time I’ve lost someone who I truly cared for and respected in the last couple of years…