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  • Tartle: Old Scots; to hesitate while introducing someone because you’ve completely forgotten their name

    Steve liked to joke that he “sang best ten or twelve miles away” when asked, but volunteered just the same. Read more

  • Flying Through Snow

    When there’s a foot of snow on the ground one cannot always count on a garbage bag to carry one to the bottom of a perfect and steep hill, not even with a head start. The snow was hard powder and ripe for sledding. A black trash bag had been all I had needed before Read more

  • All Nighters

    He’s almost finished with his first semester and his feet are being used for kindling. Read more

  • Snowday

    A civilian doesn’t get it, gets mad when they hear about it, gets furious if they have kids in school, and they hear the words “Snow Day.” Yet, those are soul soothing words to a teacher. Even one who believes her class to be so important that her instructional time is the most important part Read more

  • The Nightmare

    “I love the way you think, Cynthia.” John ordered their desserts.  Read more

  • Barefoot Willie, revisited

    Barefoot Willie sang to his bunny and his bunny sang to him. Read more

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  • Ice Cream Dreams

    It wasn’t his fault the boss ran a shit show.

  • Broken Arms

    He would only let me, and me alone sign both casts, bent at the elbows.

  • The Corsage

    Wonder how a bird of paradise and a gardenia would look as a corsage?

  • Curious

    I have to admit, I’m curious about that now too, but I hear it’s a moot point at my age.

  • Pancakes or Waffles

    Knife wounds were rare with pancakes and waffles, but twin boys made anything possible.