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I Don’t Bounce Like I Used To
Part of my recent funk has been a problem with one of my horses. I have two:one is my 19 year old “good doober” and the other is an off the track thoroughbred(OTTB) who I adopted to keep the older one company. My older boy is still rideable, but he has a breathing problem which…
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Why My Sister and I Drove Four Hours for a Crepe
Burlington, Vermont is a perfectly nice town. Perched on the edge of Lake Champlain, it’s actually quite pretty-good shopping, great food, what could be better? I’m hoping I don’t have to go there again. My sister and I drove there to meet with the lawyer who is representing us in an ongoing dispute with my…
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Going Home
It starts with a picture. An old-fashioned amusement park, complete with a casino, rollercoaster, and a small lake. It was called White City. And it was my backyard. Of course, when I was young, the amusement park was gone; the lake had shrunk to a small pond, only the legend of the rollercoaster remained, and…
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Drops of Jupiter
I heard “Drops of Jupiter” on the radio the other day and ever since, I have been thinking of Melissa. The line that gets me is: Your best friend always sticking up for you/Even when I know you’re wrong. I have written parts of her story and it is, I feel, one of my most…
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Of fantasy land, unemployment, and too many animals
So, as they say, life goes on. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Not sure I buy that one, but I have changed and tried to move on.There are still little reminders-like an ongoing battle with insurance companies and settling an estate- but that’s a blog in itself. I now live in a place…
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The story thus far
Have you ever looked back at a period of time in your life-it could be a specific event, day, week, month, or even year- and thought, holy crap how did that happen? I’m talking about a castastrophe that changes your entire life path and looking back resembles the aftermath of a war-time air raid. Let’s…