I generally like to be on the move. Whether it’s by plane or train or automobile, I become one with the motion. Closing in on my destination, most times I begin to loathe the journey’s end. I’ve become comfortable with my…
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Gas Station – Space Station
It was sweltering hot. We stopped for showers at a gas station in the middle of nowhere in Australia’s Northwest Territory. In the parking lot, there were two pairs of green Martians. They must have been ten feet tall. Despite…
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My Nerve Skated Away
I used to ice skate. In the beginning, I remember my father pulling me around on the ice. I remember once refusing to get up after a fall and spending a long while making an “ice angel”…
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At the Picture Window
After sharing in the complimentary hot chocolate, my parents and I were soon walking on a narrow, shoveled path toward a tree grove. With a foot of snow on the ground, we were in a winter wonderland as we sought…
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Gumby Girl
More on the Holiday Catharsis theme… She made him his favorite cake and had Half and Half on hand for his coffee. She would wait to turn on the pot lest his two o’clock arrival turn into three o’clock. She…
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