Tag: Family
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Twisted Sense of Humor
The Daily asks: You return home to discover a huge flower bouquet waiting for you, no card attached. Who is it from — and why did they send it to you? I don’t know anyone who would actually buy me flowers without proudly announcing they did it in a card, so this would actually creep…
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My Sanctuary
The Daily Post is asking: If you could split your time evenly between two places, and two places only, which would these be? I haven’t traveled enough to have a second favorite location that I’d love spending half of my time exploring. I wish I could answer with Florence, Santorini or even the Big Easy; dining…
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Chapter XIV: The Final Decision
Without rising from our seated positions, the medieval English countryside began to fade, only to be replaced by the quickly approaching train depot. It rushes toward us, situating stone benches under our bums, before we even have the chance to appreciate the thrill of the ride. “Well, that was something,” I breathe, reorienting myself with…
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Chapter XII: The Long Way Home
The concept of time could have crumbled off the edges of the heavens and into the abysmal seas of Tartarus, and we never would have known. Given that it didn’t exist here, it is not entirely untrue to say that we may have walked for half a millennium. Only now, each step bled both of…
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Chapter XI: My Companion Revealed
In the mere blink of an eye, the depot is replaced by an all-too familiar landscape. Asphalt and dirt paths duck under trees throwing their darker, dead foliage all over the brilliant, green grass where rows of stone wait to be remembered. Everything inside of me instantly shrivels, tries to shrink away from that which…
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Easy Peasy!
Like so many, I’ve already had those moments of sitting around with friends and family discussing what we would do if any of us ever won the lottery. Of course, this is always followed by the laughing reminder: “We have to actually buy a ticket, first!” This has always been my answer: I would pay…
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Whu-oh
Last minute Christmas shopping between 9-10 p.m. rocks – and that’s done! Now I get to spend all day tomorrow wrapping before the last of our family holiday get-togethers at my Uncle’s house (YAY, an open bar!) 😀 But, I’ve been a bad, baaad blogger. This is this first time I’ve posted anything in 3…
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Expectations
We are all but hearts, with sputtering, speaking emotions and irrational brains governing for ego’s sake Within the dark veins of my heart, thrives a world of delicate lies The woeful children I once bore, of wishes, desires, ideas and needs Unfulfilled, smothered, they’re buried deep They call out to my deafened ears, and tinker,…