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Winter's Wheat
Winter’s Wheat
I’m glad I ran into you. As our long winter turns to spring and pandemic restrictions are easing a bit, I’ve been hearing it said that we’ve spent the last year while the “earth stood still” pretty much standing still right along with it. And I’m curious: Does someone think we just been sitting around, doing nothing? Does it seem like we fell asleep a year ago and are just now waking up? Parts of…
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A New Journey
I’ve been considering this blog restart for a long time. In the past I would ask myself, “What do you want to say to the world?” and I’d be off and running—well, typing. But this is a little different. I’d write, I’d edit, and I’d shelve it for later. Then lather, rinse, repeat. This clearly wasn’t working, but human nature being what it is, I kept trying it anyway. Caught up in this whirlpool…
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Repost: Francesca and the Little Gods
Repost: Francesca and the Little Gods
By request, I’m reposting this blog.
This is one of my favorite conversations from Upside Down Kingdom:
“What is your thesis about?” I asked.
Francesca refreshed our wine and sat down at the table. “Basically, it is about how we set our goals and how we learn, or not, to achieve them, specifically in language acquisition, but it includes life goals as well.” She gestured with her hands in front…
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Live from Knoch High School
Live from Knoch High School
I’m at the annual Knoch Craft Show in Saxonburg, live and in person here with my first book. I graduated from this school many action-packed years ago, and now here I sit in the Senior High gym with more than 150 other vendors, selling what our talents have made.
This show benefits the Girls’ Basketball team, and it’s nicely run. The team helps to haul wares in and out and even stops by the…
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The Gordon Bunch, Part III
The Gordon Bunch, Part III
On a wintry Friday night, I drove along our town’s short Main Street toward the big corner church. There’s not a lot of traffic in town after dark, and I didn’t encounter much, which made me a little sad to think the cold would keep people away from the benefit dinner taking place. But when I turned the corner into the church’s back lot, I suddenly saw row after row of vehicles. “They came!” I…
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The Gordon Bunch, Part II
The Gordon Bunch, Part II
Recently, half the town and I attended a benefit for the Reverend Jim Gordon, to raise money for his treatment for Lewy Body Dementia. We gathered in the lower level of the big church to see Jim again, as many of us had only seen him sparingly since he and his wife Bonnie had been called to foreign shores for mission work. We gathered on this windy January night to donate and eat spaghetti…
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The Gordon Bunch, Part I
The Gordon Bunch, Part I
On Friday night I attended a benefit for the Reverend Jim Gordon, a spaghetti dinner that called to everyone far and wide to trek home for family time. When I was in high school, Jim (no one ever called him the Reverend Jim Gordon) was one of a team of preachers for one of the churches on Main Street (not mine), and the leader of what seemed to be the town youth group (that adopted me, and…
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Things Given
‘Tis the season, and I’m thinking about gifts. Not just about presents wrapped with bows and ribbons, but about things given, and a recent conversation.
A colleague told me that, in the world of therapy, you never take anything away without giving first. I’ll mess up his clinical wording, so I’ll give you my own writerly example of what he said:
Say you have a client with an imaginary friend, a m…
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Shift
The balance of power amazes me. I’m not talking politics here–far from it, actually, though it all may be applicable in the end. Follow me on this: There are times, when you wait tables, when everything goes wrong. Guests are grumpy, you’re not making any money, the place is short-staffed, morale is down, you’re working entirely too hard and you know it… And then suddenly management hires, not…
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End Loop
#Merica Tour, Stories from the Road, Segment 24
Back on the road, I realize a little too late that my vanilla cream soda has a cork rather than a screw cap. “This is why they offered to open it for me back at the candy store,” I say, showing Brent.
“Oh,” he says. “Look in the center consol. There’s a tool.”
I just blink at him for a moment and wonder what else he’s hidden away in the Jetta all…
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Imagination is King
#Merica Tour, Stories from the Road, Segment 23 (For links to previous segments, scroll to the bottom)
It’s a hot, sunny morning outside in St. Paul as Brent and I sit in his kitchen, running through our options. It’s my last day in town, our road trip was a complete success as we arrived back safe and mostly sound, and my laundry is currently dirtying up Brent’s washer since my clothes have done…
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Home Away From Home
Home Away From Home
#Merica Tour, Stories from the Road, Segment 22 (For links to previous segments, scroll to the bottom) America’s roads have been our home for this journey—well, the roads and Brent’s Jetta, which is filling up with state maps, brewery t-shirts, a bent peacock feather, and a good layer of sand and soot. Over the miles, we’ve listened to the hybrid folk of Trampled by Turtles, the fast-talking…
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What Lies Ahead
#Merica Tour, Stories from the Road, Segment 21 (For links to previous segments, scroll to the bottom)
We’ve been posting all sorts of pictures on Facebook, and we’re getting quite a reaction. It’s prime vacation time and our friends are checking in from exotic world locations—Paris, Rome, the beaches of Mexico–and here Brent and I post from, well, the middle of the road in America and I daresay…
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Another Way
#Merica Tour, Stories from the Road, Segment 20 (For links to previous segments, scroll to the bottom)
“There’s 75th,” I say, spotting the small sign among the overgrown greenery of the countryside.
“No, we’re going a different way,” Brent says, and drives on.
“We’re overshooting it?” I ask, dubious, because this is not Brent’s way.
“Yes,” he confirms.
This is intriguing. Brent has a plan—he…
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This Side of Eerie
This Side of Eerie
#Merica Tour, Stories from the Road, Segment 19 (For links to previous segments, scroll to the bottom)
We’re on the west side of Iowa, driving east toward a giant Volkswagen spider, the Jetta windows rolled down. I’m digging in my purse, and finally find what I’m looking for: the red packet of candy cigarettes we got back at Fort Cody in Nebraska. I open the pack.
“You’re really going to sit there…
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Terminus & Gateway
#Merica Tour, Stories from the Road, Segment 18 (For links to previous segments, scroll to the bottom)
We leave Omaha behind, crossing the Missouri River into Council Bluffs, Iowa, where we’re tracking down a giant railroad spike. Map App Sally is completely unreliable at this point, having sent us to the Omaha Zoo over and over again and calling it a different landmark each time, but now she’s…
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Omaha Familiar
#Merica Tour, Stories from the Road, Segment 17 (For links to previous segments, scroll to the bottom)
We follow Sally the Map App’s cranky instructions for finding a giant spaghetti fork and find ourselves, instead, at the Omaha Zoo–smack dab in the middle of the zoo parking lot with no fork in sight. Brent uses The Forceinstead and we find a Little Italy village of houses near downtown and…
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