Tag: Life
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Saga of Tom and Jo #18
Can you tell a story in 52 words using the following words: She had no clue. How comical how much they looked and acted alike. She was pirouetting on one foot hanging on every syllable from Tom. Egging me on about going, “Mom, you’re friends and he is not that creepy wrestler who always asks…
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Decrease then Increase
January 10, 2026 Daily Reflection John 3:27-30 27 John answered, “A man can get only what God gives him. 28 You yourselves heard me say, ‘I am not the Christ, but I am the one sent to prepare the way for him.’ 29 The bride belongs only to the bridegroom. But the friend who helps…
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Happy New Year 2026!
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…
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A Mrs. Missing
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…
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Can you tell a story in 80 words Jo and Tom #12
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…
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Can you tell a story in 54 words Jo and Tom #11
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.
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Can you tell a story in 40 words Jo and Tom #10
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.
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Women and Men of Good Will
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…
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Can you tell a story in 61 words using the following words in it somewhere: #9 Jo and Tom
I remembered all too well. The camera that recorded our senior trip. The album is full of memories. Ice-skating and sharing a wedge salad at Bravette’s, and we made love riding the ‘L’ train around the city. Frightened, I knew you were pulling away into the world. That was two months ago. He was leaving…
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Grace Overload
In my mind today, I am still exhausted from last Saturday. It was the annual Autumn March for ALS. This was the 9th year for the race and my 13th year of living with ALS. I am so, so blessed to have been given longer than the average 3-5 years. I have tried my very…
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