Month: December 2018

You Are My Gift: Image of two kittens sitting in a sun spot.
Life

You Are My Gift (And for that, I thank you.)

From time to time I receive an unexpected gift, a present I didn’t even know I wanted. And my life is better for it. Four years ago, on a hazy summer afternoon, Tony Bear and Junior-Man came home from cutting grass at our warehouse. In his hands, my son cupped a black and white ball

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No Ordinary Joe: image of Joseph and Mary in stable with baby Jesus.
Writing

No Ordinary Joe (The backstory on the #2 guy in the Christmas story.)

She is dead to me. I tried to speak the words but instead I swallowed them, bitter as bile, moments after my mother delivered the news. “Sit,” she said when I entered the room for the midday meal. She pushed a cup—more wine than water—across the table. “Drink.” Parched from the morning’s work and wood dust,

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A trio of Santa Claus Tales: Image of Santa's hands with presents.
Family

Busted (A trio of Santa Claus tales)

We weren’t even in the humongous box store five minutes when I felt a tug on my sleeve. I smiled down at my five-year old son. “Mom? The clues for the Easter basket scavenger hunt are from a computer. I don’t think the Easter Bunny has a computer. Are you the Easter Bunny? You and

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