She didn't show up for work, but I didn't think anything of it. I was surprised that she wasn't there when I arrived because she usually beats me to the office, but I assumed she was traveling or working from home. She was new, hired only a...
Topics: Friends, Gender, Grief, Hurts, Mourning, Reflection, Revalations, The Things People Tell Me, Things I Want To Remember, Work

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Earlier this fall, The Mayor threw a fit about getting dressed in the morning. [No different that the fits he threw about getting dressed in more recent mornings.] On this particular day, The Mayor's had been invited to go to the local high school...
Topics: Flashback Fridays, Grace In Small Things, Life is a Story, The Mayor

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She was his shadow almost from the moment she met him. The Rooster didn't leave his side even once. At the playground, she sat behind him with her arms wrapped around his waist as if they were driving cross country on a Harley Davidson. His name is...
Topics: Rooster Girl

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In jest, one of the members of the Board of Directors where I work teased that the organization should set up a webcam to watch what I really do on days when I work from home. There is no need to go to all that trouble. Beginning at 9:00 a.m., I open the.
Topics: Idiocy, Work

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Last night The Rooster announced that no one in her class likes the color pink. "But that’s crazy," I said. "Imagine the world without pink!" "There wouldn't be any pink in the sky during sunrise or sunset!"...
Topics: Creative Life, Family, Idiocy

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