Monthly Archives: February 2024

Prickly

If you can’t handle thorns, how can you ever expect to hold a woman? Roses were meant to be this way: to entangle their beauty and delicacy in a maize of twisted barbed wire. Perhaps to protect as much as … Continue reading

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How Much Do I Owe You?

A story told by Kent Nerburn Several years ago, a cab driver arrived late at night for a pick-up at a building that was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. Under these circumstances, he normally … Continue reading

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Love is a Rose (a short story)

by Marti and John Fischer Have you ever had one of those days when you cannot consume enough coffee to prop the eyelids open and you require elbows, like crutches on the table, to hold you up? I’m having one … Continue reading

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Give her…

by Marti Fischer Whether you are married, dating, about to… thinking of… or already getting a divorce, consider this: Just stop. Stop the complexity, and start making your life more simple. Buy your wife, your date, or your departing partner … Continue reading

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A new love story

Welcome to the month of love. It’s a good thing because everything else about February is pretty icky. I remember living in New England where February was wet and cold. Snow was slushy, skies were always gray, but then you’d … Continue reading

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The flick of a switch

How do you want to go out, with a bang or a whimper? Do you want to rust away from lack of use or blaze out like a comet across the sky? What are we here for? To create a … Continue reading

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