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The Golden Years
2023-11-24My best friend, Cocoa, and I live in a senior-citizen apartment complex in a lovely small town. Cocoa is a ten-year-old poodle and I am a sixty-nine-y...
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Consider This
2023-11-24After Fred Astaire’s first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said, can’t act! Slightly Bald! Can dance a...
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Puppies For Sale
2023-11-24A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read Puppies For Sale.” Signs like that have a way of attracting small children, and sure e...
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The Spirit of Santa Doesnt Wear A Red Suit
2023-11-24I slouched down in the passenger seat of our old Pontiac ’cause it was the cool way to sit when one is in the fourth grade. My dad was driving d...
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The Last Straw
2023-11-24It was another long, winter afternoon with everyone stuck in the house and the four McDonald children were at it again -- bickering, teasing, fighting...
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A Thanksgiving Story
2023-11-24It was the day before Thanksgiving -- the first one my three children and I would be spending without their father, who had left several months before...
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The Giving Trees
2023-11-24was a single parent of four small children, working at a minimum-wage job. Money was always tight, but we had a roof over our heads, food on the table...
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Wednesdays
2023-11-24She is my wife, my lover, my best friend. For over fourteen years, our marriage has endured and grown. I can honestly state that after all this time t...
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Are You God?
2023-11-24One cold evening during the holiday season, a little boy about six or seven was standing out in front of a store window. The little child had no shoes...
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A Perfect Mistake
2023-11-24Grandpa Nybakken loved life -- especially when he could play a trick on somebody. At those times, his large Norwegian frame shook with laughter while ...