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Ma’am

Posted on August 29, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

Every woman over the age of 30 remembers the first time a hot young guy rang up her sale, handed her the receipt and package and said “thank you, ma’am.”  It’s a brutal ego crushing moment in a young woman’s life.  No … Continue reading →

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BOHU circa 1994 Guardian Angel Two

Posted on August 28, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

This blurb will introduce a few stories coming up here.  I have been avoiding my BOHU (Beyond Our Human Understanding) stories because I fear that some of you will just think I am totally insane.  However, I am tired of holding … Continue reading →

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BOHU circa 1994 Guardian Angel One

Posted on August 28, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

This blurb will introduce a few stories coming up here.  I have been avoiding my BOHU (Beyond Our Human Understanding) stories because I fear that some of you will just think I am totally insane.  However, I am tired of holding … Continue reading →

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BOHU circa 1979 Andi and Tony

Posted on August 28, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

This blurb will introduce a few stories coming up here.  I have been avoiding my BOHU (Beyond Our Human Understanding) stories because I fear that some of you will just think I am totally insane.  However, I am tired of holding … Continue reading →

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Funeral Tensions

Posted on August 26, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

First of all, you must understand that Al’s Mom, Agnes, was an amazing woman.  Al’s Dad died when Al was five years old, of lung cancer.   Ag was left with four children under the age of 12.   Her story is … Continue reading →

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Learning to Ski

Posted on August 25, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

  Despite the fact that I look upon my time in New York as not the best time of my life, there was a harshness about it that did help me later withstand some of life’s trials and tribulations.  The … Continue reading →

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Jewel in the Journal

Posted on August 25, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

I was thumbing through my old journals – so much of it just sounds like pure insanity, but that is because once I got past the first book, I was totally honest about writing my deepest feelings and thoughts.   I … Continue reading →

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Now!

Posted on August 24, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

I was sitting at Mass one Sunday in 1993;  I had been having a major crisis of faith in my personal life – I felt like that popular poem Footprints where the guy, seeing only one set of footprints in … Continue reading →

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Cinderella Syndrome

Posted on August 24, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

That’s what I call this awful first day back at work after vacation, when the carriage turns into a pumpkin, the glass slippers turn into work shoes, the dancing ends, the slogging begins.

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Gopher It

Posted on August 23, 2010 by favoritephilosopher

I can’t believe it!  It’s about a hundred degrees out here, so I was surprised to see my rosebush swaying in the breeze.  Wait a second…there’s no breeze, it’s a hundred degrees and not a breath of air!  I ran … Continue reading →

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