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I lasted about six weeks after my cat died. Although I still miss her (and will always miss her), I needed another cat in my life. In my house, on the…
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Tom Power started thinking about being a judge when he spent a summer as a volunteer court clerk. “I came to appreciate the efforts made to help people…
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While I was in a doctor’s waiting room the other day, a tall man walked in—a handsome man with gray hair and a carefully-tended comb-over. My first…
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“It’s about telling stories,” Gregg Smith says, describing his work as a partner in a communications and marketing firm. “We raise public awareness of an…
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There’s an old coffee mug on my desk full of pencils. Long pencils with full erasers, waiting to be selected. Short pencils with used-up erasers, waiting…
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I’ve had a Christmas Cactus in my east window for a long while which blossoms about once a year—never on Christmas. It started out as one of those little…
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“Just today, a ninety-year-old woman brought in a little wicker rocker,” Bonnie Rickman says. “She had a photo of herself as a child standing by the…
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Everywhere you look, people are loading big bags of sunflower seeds into their cars, signaling the season of bird feeding. In the past, I’ve enjoyed…
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Years ago my husband received a gift T-shirt that said, “Thank a Teacher.” Since it was too large, he offered the T-shirt to me and I have used it as…
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Cari Peterson fell in love with travel as a young girl. “My dad was a car dealer,” she says, “so he would win trips and our family got to go places.” Cari…