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When I was One-and-Twenty

( Essays )

On my twenty-first birthday I did a very sentimental thing.  I wrote a letter to myself on my best stationery, sealed it solemnly, and dated the envelope July 27, 2005.  Ten years later.  With a fluttery feeling about my heart I laid it reverently on the bottom of my new hope chest and piled on […]

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life…

It’s been one of those weeks.  Someone left their car in neutral at the mechanic’s where my car was having the oil changed and destroyed my passenger side door.  On Tuesday, the house painters walked off the job, leaving a half-scraped house and a disheartening amount of exposed rotten wood in their wake.  The next […]