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  • Jo and Tom #14

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    Can you tell a story in 100 words using the following words in it somewhere: “Take off the amour. We’ve been to Hades and back. No glossing it over. I took the most dangerous tours. No marriage. No children. Your grey bun and my balding grey head rocking our grandchildren on the porch, our dream.” …

  • Happy New Year 2026!

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    Happy New Year 2026! Saint John 2:29-3:6 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him.  3:1-6  1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason…

  • Rudolph Slays the Day

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    Santa jumped out of his ramshackle sleigh.  Waving his arms around in dismay yelling about we have no time to delay. The elves were off the chain and protesting in the driving rain On strike demanding the gifts go by train. Rudolph flew through the middle of the fray pulling a new sleigh and saved…

  • A Mrs. Missing

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    I am happy to report I have been very busy. God is blessing me with more work! I have been reading your messages but I’m crazy busy. I have had many spells, day and night, of crying uncontrollably. I miss my husband so much. I miss my body before ALS. I miss feeling beautiful the…

  • Can you tell a story in Jo & Tom #13

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    Can you tell a story 31 words using the following words in it somewhere: “I don’t believe in fairy tales. Santa never comes down the chimney. Naughty or nice. You left and I knew you’d never come back for me. The sparkle would fade.” 

  • Look Up

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    In my mind, I have been carrying confusion, grief, and anger. I just haven’t felt like I was on the right path. I have been on the “struggle bus” some may say. Struggling with my family, struggling with my heart, struggling with the world’s deterioration of good and defining good, struggling with death, and struggling…

  • Can you tell a story in 80 words Jo and Tom #12

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    Jo, you look like you are a million miles away.”  Centuries away in the video reel in my mind, 1969, thought Jo. “This creepy museum and I feel ridiculous in this tight dress, red pumps, and red lips. Looking like a beached mermaid, I’m sorry.” “I just found you. You should have been a special…

  • Can you tell a story in 54 words Jo and Tom #11

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    Thinking now of gestational acne rolling down HWY 41, Jo turned the radio on; the song was “Spaceman” by Harry Nilsson. Would Tom be happy? Would he want to come home? His husky voice rejoiced leaving his alcoholic, abusive father and sharecropper shack. No more picking wheelbarrows full of lettuce 12 hours a day.

  • Can you tell a story in 40 words Jo and Tom #10

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    I tell no one, especially Tom. I loved Tom too much to make a puddle of his life. Knapsack, tip money, and favorite bonsai, we (baby and me) headed toward the interstate in my “Fishbowl,” my 1977 yellow Plymouth Pacer.

  • Women and Men of Good Will

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    In my mind, I have been so busy with a head full of dreams. Dreams of rescuing children suffering in an America full of resources, but failing to clothe, feed, shelter the most vulnerable and valuable in our society, the widows (elderly) and orphans (from neglect from addiction not just substances but also the ego…