The Saga of Sooty. To keep it all alliterative I’ll call Sooty’s protector Susan. I once gave her a Crazy Cat Lady frig magnet. She’s my direct opposite — I’m just not a cat person. Therefore every cat I’m around has to cozy up to me. They must think they …
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He’s all of 9 years old. Been in foster care for six years — moved around too many times to count. Has a younger brother who got adopted last year — without him. I wonder what that felt like — to be left behind. We in families see our share …
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His face is healing in a recent photo I saw of the boy who saved his sister last month from the German Shepherd attack. The family says from the minute she was born he held a big brother bond with her. Three years older he has stuck close — and …
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Recently there was a write-up on the one thing it will take, according to a former royal press secretary, for Prince William and Prince Harry to come together again as brothers. And that is for Harry to move back to the UK. This person went on to say he hoped …
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Sharing gets a little touchy when we’re talking where we live and all the people moving in. A friend stopped by the local DMV and learned just that day there had been 50 sets of license plates issued. City dwellers are fleeing for the security and freedom and lower living …
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Most of us are dealing with summer weirdness due to coronavirus. Routines being sort of normal but not really. Some things seem back — others not. And there is this sense of hovering. Waiting for regular life to begin again. Maybe it can be described as being put on an …
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The best kind of surprise is just a surprise away. And so I find myself with a nearly 93-year-old uncle asleep in the “man cave.” My mother’s younger brother — the last of my parents’ generation. It happened when I took the train to Salinas, California, last February to visit …
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I’m looking out upon miles and miles of trees. Glad I live someplace crowded with them. That old line, “Two’s company, three’s a crowd,” does not apply here. I still remember hearing a speaker from Nebraska say, “We’ve got trees. They’re called telephone poles.”
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I had breakfast this past week with a young teen friend who had to make a choice. She found herself at one of those forks in life — could have gone this direction or that direction. One direction was clearly going to require more effort. Why bother? She accepted the …
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In Isabel Wilkerson’s “The Warmth of Other Suns” she tracks the story of the Great Migration — the years between 1914-1970 when millions of African Americans fled in desperation from Jim Crow laws of the South and resettled in western and northern cities, reaching for something better. They went where …
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I have one simple goal every day. A question I ask myself either in the morning or the evening. What can I do to benefit someone today? What did I do today that benefited someone? If I come up empty then I haven’t lived my best day.
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Last week, I called disillusionment an enemy. The dictionary defines it as “a feeling of disappointment that something is not as good as one believed it to be.”
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