Category: Blog

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The Adult Child Shall Lead Them

My two adult children are both in their early thirties, married, with kids. Whenever I visit them I leave with my head spinning, my heart

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Lucy

Lucy was well known on the skid row in Sioux City, Iowa.  I never heard anyone refer to her by her family name. It was

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When Things Go Bang in the Night

Our dog had an unfortunate run-in with some firecrackers last year while we were out for her evening walk. That meant that this year’s Fourth

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The Last Supper

A couple of years ago, I decided to take time off from blogging for The Twelve so that I could concentrate my creative writing energy

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Meals Tell Our Stories

I’m finishing this article as I finish preparing a seafood feast for my extended family. I paid a visit to a tiny local fish market

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Humbly Rethinking

My wife likes to say I play a doctor on TV.  I don’t of course, but for a long time now I have had  a

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