• Be Nice to My Baby!

    Anyone who has submitted a creative work for critique can understand the emotional tug of war.  You have this precious creation you’ve poured yourself into.  Probably has some expressions of you that people don’t normally see.  Vulnerable.  It is your own creative flair.  A very personal thing.  And then comes the time when you hand your…

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  • Things to Give

    There are those moments in life when something you know in your head sinks down into your heart and lands with a “whump!” that reverberates throughout your whole being.  What you knew to be true, or what you repeated to yourself over and over again is suddenly something you can feel.  Many times these transitions sneak up on…

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  • Bungee Cords

    When I was growing up, there was always a bungee cord or two somewhere near by.  My Dad kept a supply of them in his shop – some of them regularly used and some of them on standby.  We always had a handful in the car.  You never knew when you might need one.  They…

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  • Sometime towards the end of last year I hit a wall with the book I have been writing on our relationship to time.  A good friend of mine told me that I needed to walk away from the manuscript for a while.  Probably saved the book’s life.  Even though I knew it was needed and I welcomed…

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  • Kindred Spirits

    I was at the pet store one afternoon when two middle-aged ladies walked in.  One was there to buy some supplies and the other was along for the ride.  She’d never been around birds before … and there were a lot of them at this store.  In fact, that’s what the store was all about. …

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