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The Pros and Cons of Lifting Weights
Are you wondering about the pros and cons of lifting weights? Let’s start with the cons. If you begin lifting weights, you will have new expenses, starting with food. My wife, Lori, and I had five teenagers at one time. One of them was a powerlifter who ate like three men. Every week, Lori bought…
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Publishing, Parachuting, and Three Lincolns
In the early 1990s, I was the best man for my brother’s wedding. For his bachelor party, we didn’t want to do anything immoral, so we decided to try something dangerous, instead: parachuting. My wife made me promise never to do it again. There would be three commands: get out, get all the way out…
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Horse Sense
Dear Reader, how I treasure your sticking with me on the road to publication. I learned this month I’m a semi-finalist in the Genesis Contest for unpublished authors. How delightful to receive an evening phone call from a contest organizer. (They don’t call you when you lose!)
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Writing “The Dis”
By the time we are thirty years old, we know it’s true: all our abilities are temporary. Our physical and cognitive skills decline, at an ever-increasing pace, as if with a will of their own.
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Resurrection
Dear Reader, I have missed you. The twin sisters of winter, Cold and Darkness, sneaked up on me last December with their claws. Now I find myself emerging, like a crocus from the ground, renewed with hope, a participant in the rising fragrance of spring.
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Turnabout and the Common Cold
Turnabout is fair play. That’s what one of my physician mentors, Ken O’Neill, told me. In essence, sharp, witty replies are acceptable, even when they flash some teeth.
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Day 90 on the Gravanok
It’s been three months today since we set sail with Captain TAT. The boys-a are becoming men-ya. There have been no fistfights in over a week, and we’ve had no deaths, despite the two who went overboard in shark-filled waters.
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The Promise and the Lawsuit, Part Two
Everybody breaks. Some teenagers might never imagine that the laws of entropy and the facts of mortality apply to them. (See “Too Dumb Things,” by TAT!) Similarly, some newlyweds may not know, especially if they are young, that they, themselves, will break. Physically, mentally, or emotionally, their beloved partner will also break.
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Remembering Dr. Baker
Will happy haunting suffice for this week? “The Promise and the Lawsuit, Part One” demands at least two follow-up installments. The same thing goes for “The Dialogues of Solly and TAT.” However, today I hope to go short and light.
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A Song for Sammie
I’m searching for somebody—the person I can help the most through my writing. I don’t know her real name, because she’s a private person, but sometimes I call her Suffering Sammie. If you see her, or if you know where she lives, could you tell her I’m still looking for her? That I never gave…
