living in the moment

On The Rocks

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It had been another day of driving on western roads, the kind where what looked so close up ahead was actually much farther away.

I finally quit at 5 o’clock not because I was ready to call it a day but rather because the distance to the next town was too great. Even then, it wasn’t much more than one of those “wide place in the road” communities with a sign that says: Welcome! We are glad to see you! and another sign that says: Come back again!

There was one motel. A bell on the counter summoned an elderly … Read the rest “On The Rocks”

This Ain’t No Dress Rehearsal!

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From somebody came a sperm and from another somebody came an egg. They got together and from that speck there soon began to sprout a head, arms, and legs. Soon it all got big enough, and out you plopped — wet, hungry, and squalling.

Some wildly anticipated your arrival, everybody else ho-hummed it. Whatever the welcome, there you were. Ready to live. Ready for a life. You could hardly wait.

If that happened back in the olden days, you were allowed to be a kid — get dirty and sunburned, jump off diving boards, climb trees, learn to ride a … Read the rest “This Ain’t No Dress Rehearsal!”