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Author Archives: jwfisch
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
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
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
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
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
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
On the move
The Lord had said to Abram [his name was later changed to Abraham], “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” Genesis 12:1 Abraham was a pioneer. He was told to pack up all his … Continue reading
Pioneering in the twenty-first century
Covered wagon breakdowns? Rough terrain? Blinding snow storms? Robberies? Indian attacks? Is that what we’re talking about in the twenty-first century? No, but we are talking about venturing into the unknown against the odds of our culture like a rapidly … Continue reading
‘What Can I Do For You?’
So here I am, fiddling with words in the only language I know. I feel that there has to be some way to further refine what I want to say, and then write it. If each time I hit the … Continue reading
Every Grain of Sand
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand In every leaf that trembles, and in every grain of sand – Bob Dylan Okay, I officially declare this Bob Dylan Week … Continue reading
John Fischer The Catch 