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Being surprised never becomes familiar. It if did, it wouldn’t BE surprise. My lastest  surprise was this week. Hope paid me a visit. For a quantity of days, the level of violence unleashed by shootings in the country I call … Continue reading →

The athletes in London are wondrous. Athletes everywhere are wondrous. Today I saw a big-shouldered man with a left leg and a prosthesis where his right leg should be, riding a mountain bike along a path, a path that skirts … Continue reading →

“Don’t get your hopes up” is not good advice. I’ve taken this advice and affirm it does NOT work. It may be okay to not get your expectations up but this is a hedge. It doesn’t work either. It is … Continue reading →

There are many reasons why folks don’t write. Lack of talent isn’t one of them. Memory is. Both fiction and nonfiction tap memory and memory is a squirrely thing. Your memory is your truth in the sense that it’s infallible. … Continue reading →

I think humor is anything that causes me laughter or amusement, forgetting “humor” was coined many moons ago to describe a person whose temperament is out of balance. Lately I’m reminded what amuses some, is way out of balance to … Continue reading →

Monsignor Plunkett was pastor at Elmhurst’s Immaculate Conception parish when I attended its kindergarten, grammar and high schools so I got to see him during those 13 years, more often than any other man of authority, except Dad. This may … Continue reading →

Grandma Janda was Mom’s Mom and her manicure was her most obvious feminine habit. Her other feminine habits had to do with behaviors, like noticing the shape of people’s heads. She was a head noticer. She would make comments like … Continue reading →

There are many reason why folks don’t write. Lack of talent isn’t one of them. Misunderstanding the rules of originality is. Writers don’t have to worry about originality but some do. No one is you and no one’s voice is … Continue reading →