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WRITERS WORK TO EXPLAIN WITHOUT BEING A JERK

May 29, 2020 by

Writers work, readers read, and somewhere between the two an agreement happens. Sometimes the agreement includes a reader who stops reading while the writer keeps writing. That’s what writers do. Readers look for the next story, something more worthy of their time. Then this happened:

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MOTHERS DAY STACK: ADD AN ANNIVERSARY AND NEW CUP

May 10, 2020 by

Mothers Day some years includes a wedding anniversary. But not every year. It’s always close on the calendar, real close. When it’s the deuce, and on a Sunday, it feels like a home run, and the important thing is touching all of the bases and sliding in home.

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SADNESS AND THE ONLY CHILD ALONE ON THEIR DAY

April 12, 2020 by

The Smothers Brothers comedy team had a routine that fit every family, except only child families, when one said to the other, “Mom always liked you best.” Every brother or sister who hasn’t said that missed a golden opportunity for a guilt ridden jab, deserved or not. In some homes it has to go unsaid […]

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STORY TIME STORY WITH DAVE, OR IS IT DAVID

April 1, 2020 by

Story time begins with tradition. What tradition, you ask? All good stories begin the same. They might still be good stories, but not classic Story Time. Once Upon A Time:

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PREEMPTIVE CONVERSATION: SORRY, I WASN’T LISTENING

February 22, 2020 by

When is the best time for a Preemptive Conversation? Married men have different answers than singles, from both sides of the fence: Her side, and yer side.

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DRY JANUARY? START NOW, PARTY LATER

January 2, 2020 by

Dry January, or No Drink January, came as a surprise. One of my favorite booze-hounds came up with it before I’d ever heard of it. “I’m thinking of doing a dry January,” he said.

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LEARNING LEADERSHIP: WHERE TO START AND END

October 4, 2019 by

The idea of learning leadership begins the first time you do what you are told to do. Usually it starts with a mom or a dad. If not them, maybe a teacher or coach. If it happens to be some jackass in the neighborhood a few years older, then it’s going to be a defective […]

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MUSIC MUSEUM WILD MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

April 23, 2019 by

What came before bagpipes in music museum? Is it the ‘goat pipe?’ Maybe the ‘dog pipe?’ Which ever it was, I didn’t get to hear how they sounded. The Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale AZ isn’t for the timid. Music minded people throughout the ages learned to improvise. Like Elvis singing Jailhouse Rock where inmates […]

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MARRIAGE BRIDGES GENERATIONS WHO JOIN

April 2, 2019 by

What’s the best way to give newly weds the sort of advice they’ll need for a future together in marriage? After the vows and rings, who is best equipped to deliver the last word in marriage? Since weddings are so hectic it all turns into a blur of fiends and family, near and far, young […]

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CAREGIVING EXCERPT FROM WORK IN PROGRESS

March 22, 2019 by

My caregiving days ended the morning I came downstairs and found Ken laying still in his hospital bed. Very still. I was suspicious. A large red circle nearly two feet in diameter stained the bedspread drawn up to his chin. What. The. F?

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