Recently I read a discourse between some children discussing parents. One stated that her parents don’t want her to change. Perhaps they were trying to avoid losing their rough and tumble mud loving tomboy. The next thought her ignorant parents were incapable of accepting any but preconceived notions about her. Another wondered if all parents […]
Upon sensing their presence, Sweet Mom stands in the nursery and admonishes the visitors to do her babies no harm. It is said that babies bring links to that forgotten place where we all come from. Our experience living with little people has always brought us into contact with this unseen and perhaps forgotten world. […]
Today I was going to tell the story of our encounters with the Shadow People. While reminiscing about the events, I realized that I must tell of the wonderful place they made their first appearances. While others slept, I was fortunate to inhabit a place of solitude where all things became possible. Night was […]
As a teenager, I would enjoy this little exercise: When asked the time, I would just blurt out the correct time. Next I would check my watch to verify my accuracy. As a young parent, I could hear Sweet Mom quizzing a kid on schoolwork in another room. The door was closed and their […]
With a flash, and over as soon as it began is how the first event happened. Newlywed and living in a triplex house, we were to experience two unexplainable events that remain as the first of many such occurrences throughout our married lives. Upon moving to our home on Marcie St., we were informed […]
A colleague, whom I’ll call Ralph, once told me of a miraculous product developed by a customer of his. When placed in a refrigerator, this device would through energy savings, pay for itself many times over. The customer, whom I’ll refer to as Bill, had sole access to the secret mixture of minerals that provided […]
In the evolution of language, words or phrases come into popular usage and then fade back into obscurity. These changes happen with such rapidity as to evidence an almost instantaneous collective agreement to the new vernacular. Some years ago I witnessed the strange birth of a new popular term. The term was “absolutely”! What […]
I once read a story of a planet inhabited by colonists sent from Earth to avoid a global cataclysm. All of the people received an implant at birth that prevented them from pursuing lines of thought that could lead to the development of mechanized warfare. After many millennia, they had sophisticated technologies that provided them […]
I know of nothing more dreadful than living a life at the mercy of powerful forces beyond my control. As a whole, we are a species futilely trying to insure ourselves against the unfortunate events that inevitably befall our innocent selves. We live as victims trying to fend off poverty, illness, unhappiness, and discontent. We […]
This morning, with trepidation, I prepared to embark on our first hike of the season. I needed to break in my new hiking boots (always a scary event). With the snow pack in the higher elevations we would be confined to the low ground, without the incentive of grand vistas. We would be trapped taking […]
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