This favor you ask for — the answer is “no.” My impulse — the people-pleaser — is to quickly say yes. But I would feel the knot in my gut and spend a while avoiding acting on it then make […]
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On This Hand, Many
I can’t start today – nor this week, not this year! It’s twelve days ’til Thanksgiving, and family’s coming from four states! Aunt Bessy would die if I turned down her cheesecake! The next week I host the reception, and […]
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A year’s calendar isn’t long enough, so they make them for eighteen months. Experts expect a five-year plan, short term, but a twenty-year outlook for the vista. I’ll buy their calendars, list goals far-fetched, but the only way to get […]
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I hate OA. The day you first went through those doors was worse for me than a root canal, than your death would have been. We had such fun together, before, when you’d match me at the buffet, send me back […]
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You have your idea what would make you happy. I have found my way — at long last – to joy. You have no response to my bliss but that it’s so final. I would give you glee were it […]
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