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Category Archives: It Really Did Happen!
Dear John (and Margaret and Doreen and Larry and Alphonse and…)
It’s not you, it’s me. Shush, shush. No, don’t speak… It was 17 years ago on this very day that we first ran across each other.* Do you remember? You were a longstanding, traditional newspaper readership and I was a … Continue reading
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Tagged breakup letter, burnout, columnist, humor, sabbatical, taking a break, writing
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Pour Some Sugar in Me
I’m a father. I like sugar. I’m a sugar daddy. No? Not how that works? I do like my sweets, though. Always have. I don’t know where the sweet tooth comes from, whether it’s something I was born with or … Continue reading
Posted in It Really Did Happen!
Tagged humor, Junior Mints, sugar, sugar addiction, sugar consumption
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Celebrating Our 10,950th
I’m writing this on the day of our 30th wedding anniversary. Deb and I were married on December 15, 1990 in Sherbrooke. That wasn’t the original plan. We were living together in Montreal, engaged, and had been gearing up for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990, anniversary, humor, marriage, wedddings, youth
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Not a Blue Christmas: A Zoom Reading
Hi friends. A quick plug here for an event I’m participating in this Sunday at 2:30 pm ET. It’s Not A Blue Christmas, a series of readings via Zoom, organized by Shoreline Press. I’ll be reading a selection of short … Continue reading
Posted in It Really Did Happen!, Writing
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