Erica Kane has left the building
You know the economy is bad when Susan Lucci’s on the unemployment line. Looks like the story is over I can remember the secret pleasure I had as a kid watching All My Children with my grandmother in...
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“You don’t know what fear is,” Mary Magdalene told me in a tremulous voice that betrayed the fact that she did know. She remembered real fear. She was intimately aquainted with terror: She watched Him...
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“Godspeed, little man.”-the Dixie Chicks “time was playing tricks on us.” -Scout Finch A dear friend died. All I keep thinking is, “I hope he didn’t suffer. I hope he was not alone. I hope it happened...
View ArticleInappropriate Funeral Music
Don't put some rock with my name on it above my bones. Please, plant daisies. I don’t care where I’m buried. I don’t care if my bones are left in a padded coffin or a pine box. I don’t care which...
View ArticleThe Words Live
I have a fascination with Last Words, and I have accumulated a rather ecclectic collection of them. An individual’s last words are often their most beautiful, their most poignant, the funniest, the...
View ArticleMy Biblical Heroes: Agur
I have just enough wits to know that I am stupid, which is sort of cruel on Your part, when I dwell on it. I’m not a fierce warrior or a romantic poet or a powerful prince. I am not wise or learned. I...
View ArticleGood for Nothing
“Santa’s watching: you’d better be good.” I hate that sentence. Using the idea that the reason to be good is because you will be rewarded for your behavior destroys the purity of goodness. To motivate...
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