Month: May 1998
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playing Monopoly with dad
The spring my brother introduced his fiance to his family, he invited her to play a game of Monopoly with the family. Behind her back, my brother whispered to my sister, “Hsst. Hsst, sis.” “What?” she leaned over to hear. “Play it really fast,” he whispered. Fast in our family means after one player throws…
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creature comforts
In good times or bad, animals reach us in ways that human words cannot. Take the spring several years ago when my world turned upside down. I lived in a swirl of confusion. That year I made several trips along a road where spring waters flooded either side of the road. My thoughts swirled faster…
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Never ending remodeling
The gray-haired gentleman stopped me after church Sunday. “When are you going to write a column that the remodeling project is done? You know, the dust is wiped up, the furniture is in place and the job is done. When are you going to write that column?” I laughed, “oohhh, about next Christmas. We are…
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Observations while delivering phone books
Friday a new phone book landed on my desk and reminded me: It is once again time for the delivery of the area phone book to the front porches and drives of local homes. It reminded me of the spring I answered a classified ad for part-time work delivering phone books. I found a harried…