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Pumpkin pie

My eldest child and only daughter will be eight tomorrow. She wants a pumpkin pie with eight candles. No cake. I am going to make it happen, somehow. I will have to consult my friends, Mrs. Smith and Marie Callender, for assistance since there are no fresh pumpkins flooding the store fronts yet. I don’t […]

London Calling

My prayers fly up for all those in London. From watching the coverage on TV, I am struck by how calm and stoic the citizens seem to be. They categorically condemn the attacks of course, but they are saying “Oh, this has happened before, it is nothing new…we will survive.”

I also think of […]

A play in three acts examining something new

Setting: dusk-bright home, early winter pre-Christmas 2004 craziness in a metro Denver suburban home

Wife: (shyly) Do you think we can redesign Lifenut sometime? Just a few little tweaks and color changes?

Husband: (boldly) I can think of nothing I would rather do.

Setting: too early on a Saturday morning, springtime 2005. A giant earthworm […]