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Obstacles in time
Today, January 9th, 2006 would have been my mothers 56th birthday. But, she’s dead, so it’s not. Today is the first day of classes for the second semester, you may remember that the last day of classes for last semester was my birthday, December 6th. Mom manages to screw things up even when she’s dead. Yesterday the school calls to tell me my first class of the day, Speech, is cancelled due to not enough…
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Spinning Wheels
I’ve got a bikeYou can ride it if you likeIt’s got a basket A Bell that ringsAnd things that make it look good…. Pink Floyd Ok, no bell, no basket… but I do have a working bike again!!!! woo hoo!!!
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Briefly a Baptist
Early in the 1980s, while we lived in Florida, Mom got a religious streak or maybe she just felt bad that we hadn’t had any real religious upbringing. Of course, its also possible that the Sunday School classes seemed too much like free babysitting for her to pass up. It was actually nice, The Baptist Church’s Sunday School actually taught some stuff that was entertaining to my then early teenaged mind. After classes we would…
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The Return of the Beast
Donna M. and Chris S. sent me an unusual gift…. They said it was coming, and I assumed: cookies (love peanut butter cookies, feel free to send some), or World Of Warcraft subscription card or even a comic book…. The UPS guy arrived, knocked at the door to be sure someone was home and then went to get my package. He brought the cart out, the cart? That’s a lot of cookies or comics… wait……
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Five hundred twenty-five thousand…
How do you measure a year in the life? First I thought I’d send stuff out in the mail, but that’s neither me nor cost effective. So, it gets posted here. The year was one of change, tears, and conquering fears. Favorite items of the year:TV: CSI’s Quentin Tarantino episode had to be the creepiest thing on TV I’ve seen in yearsBook: The Kite RunnerMusic: Rob Thomas, Soundtrack to RENT, John Legend (thank you Denise…
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The Spirit of Christmas II
Have they all been bad? No. Has it changed since you have gotten sober? a little My second year of sobriety, and Christmas was fast approaching, I actually had a job and money which were both rare at the time. I actually wanted to buy gifts for my two best friends, but it was very hard. They both had really good jobs and I could not afford to buy them anything that would compare to…
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The Spirit of Christmas
A cold December morning, a car filled with packages, people and pain. So little room that there is a pie between my feet in the back seat. All four of us kids are in the back seat, Dad and Mom sit in the front, the smell of last nights alcohol still seeping through their pores. The car travels slowly up Grandpa’s ice covered mile and a half drive, as we approach the house we see…
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