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Stealing Lawn Ornaments

When we weren’t cruising mausoleums at ten miles an hour, we were stealing lawn ornaments: pink flamingos, plastic leprechauns, carriage boys holding out lanterns...

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Starting Fires

I am passionate about beginnings: The outline and first chapter of a relationship, walking the knife edge of the first day, the turning of imagined into real. If I followed my passion I would get my...

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Crafting A Deathly Story

I haven’t been in a theater lately where there was so much emotion. At the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, with my son and his friends, I was amazed at the depths the...

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A Poem from Thich Nhat Hanh on Non-Duality

The text from Thich Nhat Hanh's poem, "Recommendation", published in his book, Being Peace, Parallax Press, 1987, reminds me in times of trouble, to practice non-duality.

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Wendy Moves Out

I had been Wendy, in Peter Pan, taking care of the Lost Boys for so long. But now I was moving out.

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Dispelling Gloom

And while Old Man Gloom and the park he is torched in were prepared this week, the Google alert I set up for my name many years ago has been very active.

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So Poe

Death is here now, waiting patiently as we make coffee, crack open eggs, reach for the morning paper.

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