winter
Into the gap

The few days between Christmas and the New Year celebrations always feels like a gap to me: an obstacle to hurdle quickly and then get on with the next thing to do. I’m all busy cleaning up the holiday mess…
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Followup to the Followup

The sun is shining. I have coffee in hand and lemon yogurt in tummy. The floor is once more covered in black dog hair, and the laundry seems endless. My office is slowly taking shape: it was pulled apart, over…
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Holiday Love

Whether you celebrate Solstice, Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus, etc etc — this is my favorite poem ever, and I think it applies equally to all paths. I’m only quoting excerpts, because it’s long. (Caps are my emphasis, not original format.)…
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End of Year Wrapup

It’s not even December yet, and I’m ready to call 2016 a wrap. How about you? This hasn’t been an entirely bad year, though it’s certainly knocked many of us on our respective keesters more than once. Let’s look at…
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