Louise

30Dec08

[The following “droubble” (a work of fiction exactly 200 words long) was to be entered into a writing contest until I learned I needed to register on the contest website for a minimum of $7.95 per month.  I decided to put it here instead.  You are supposed to look at the photo of this man [...]

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Indigestion (re-post)

26Dec08

[Post originally appeared in November, now digitally remastered since some readers missed it after I took it off to edit.]
 
 
When my wife Karen and I would go to Jumbalaya, a Peabody, Massachusetts restaurant that promised a combination of Tex-Mex and Creole food, she always seemed to be smirking.  I should have taken this as an [...]

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A Christmas Day Way

23Dec08

In the third grade in 1972, our class at Trinity School was all boys.  We, along with the younger boys and the fourth grade above us, formed ourselves in single file – “Chapel Line” we called it; shortest to tallest – as we marched down the length of the sanctuary in the Upper School building [...]

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Don’t forget the meat

06Dec08

I’m reading the third book in a trilogy-memoir by a fellow whose explanation of Christianity is a little like chicken noodle soup that lacks the chicken.  It’s not bad tasting soup, in and of itself, but it’s not chicken noodle soup and yet calls itself that, and most people who eat it think it is, [...]

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