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Shopping For Eternal Love by
10
(22 Stories)

Prompted By Shopping Local

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"Bartender, drinks on the house for the entire castle!"
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My Five-year Desk Project by
25
(34 Stories)

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Of course, like all woodworkers, I could show you every place where I made a mistake, where the final project is not perfect - but I won't.
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On This Winter’s Night With You by
100
(141 Stories)

Prompted By Dangerous Deeds

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Early in the relationship, back when we were both freshman college students, back in New Jersey, my First Love’s parents decided, for various reasons, to hate me. Virulently.
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Law school and basketball by
200
(302 Stories)

Prompted By Sports

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How basketball saved my sanity in law school.
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A Letter from the TRANSITIONAL RETIREMENT ZONE by
50
(77 Stories)

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As I prepared to clear out my office, the authorities began to inform me and the rest of my cohort that a dread disease was raging across the land, and that we were especially prone to catch it. Few of us believed it, but as you know, one plays along.
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A Life Devoted to Protesting for Justice: Marcy Wiersch Johnson by
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Prompted By Protests

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They were marching partly as a tribute to Marcy, a woman whose life embodied so much of what protests and activism had accomplished to advance the cause of social justice.
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Dorothy by
100
(141 Stories)

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We used to have round robin ball-room dances in gym back then.
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The Red Lemon by
10
(11 Stories)

Prompted By Car Trouble

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A summer love affair with a flimsy VW camper-bus.
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Through the screen: traveling to murder in comfort by
25
(33 Stories)

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TV is enjoyable when it provides for personable entertainment, reflection. and curiosity. Not when it stirs up meaningless fantasy. and fears.
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New Year’s Tradition by
200
(359 Stories)

Prompted By The New Year

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  We learned long ago that going out on New Year’s Eve was just something we didn’t want to do. Everything was overpriced and you always ran the risk of drunk drivers on the road. So we stayed in with friends and cooked. When David was a baby, I had a few couples over and…
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