REFLECTIONs

 

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GET HELP, GIVE HELP

August 18, 2020

If someone you love needs help with an alcohol or other drug problem, visit this website: www.GetHelpGiveHelp.info.

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THE GIFT

June 2, 2020

Artist Sydni Sterling’s painting of a bicycle titled “The Gift” was inspired by her travels to France and Italy. Allowing me to use the painting to grace the story “No One Way” is a gift, too.


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“DESCRIBE IT LIKE HEMINGWAY…”

May 26, 2020

Sometimes people respond to the stories I send out every week with the most poignant, empathic comments. Art Todras wrote about “The Fragrance of a Rose” story: “This is why we have poetry.”


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A NEW MINDSET

May 17, 2020

“Language is a powerful shaper of thinking. And the very last thing we need right now is a mindset of mutual distancing...


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A SHORT STORY

November 12, 2019

Paco. I have read this story perhaps a hundred times and with every reading I sigh . . . sometimes I cry.


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THE GIFT OF WONDER

November 5, 2019

The earth is spinning on a different axis and I am lost in time and space…


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THE ‘PERFECT’ PICTURE

October 3, 2019

For my first story email, I found the "perfect" image of a dog resting its chin on a fallen log, looking upward, ears on high alert. I showed the photo to my husband and he said, "Cute!"…


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EXCITEMENT IS NERVOUSNESS SPELLED BACKWARD

October 29, 2019

Today I am launching my first weekly “story email.” I'm nervous and excited and, as I wrote to a good friend a few days ago, nervous is excitement spelled backward…