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Mausoleum versus Obelisk

Sometimes cemeteries present interesting stories simply by the accidental placement of the deceased.  One of the best is this one in Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle

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Holiday Memories

I grew up on a dairy farm in northeast Ohio. At that time—in the late 70’s, through the 80’s, and eventually into the 90’s—it was

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Chaptering Our Lives

At a work meeting this week, our committee was discussing a niggling little matter that will need to be decided soon. As we talked amicably,

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In its own way

Come January, what you’ve got to work with here is a snowy quilt, occasional azure up above, dusky grasses the color of buffalo calves, and

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Hammer

“Pack a lunch and you will need your own hammer” he told me. So I dove my teen-aged self to Gemmen’s Hardware and stood in

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Whatever be my fate

Yesterday, January 17th, was the birthday of Anne Brontë. Born in 1820, Anne was the youngest of the famous Brontë siblings–and like her sisters, Charlotte

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The Church of 2047

Part of the conversation begun by Syd Hielema’s essay The Church of Jesus in 2047: Life After the Decade from Hell, and then continued by

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