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4. Owed to Dad

This is a special Father’s Day post. The regular Apple Hill Cottage posts will resume next week. Dad died in March. He was 90 and until he was about 88, he was healthy, happy, and still playing golf....

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For my friend

My friend Nancy died last night after a long fight with cancer. This is for you, Nance. A blue jay came to sit on my window sill as my friend was dying. I thought Do birds take our spirits to heaven?...

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the quality of mercy is not strained…

i have a friend who has demons in his head.

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Eminent Domain: 11, Alex, Burton, Conrad

11 Alex, Burton, Conrad Wednesday, February 10, 1988 The hospital parking lot was full — the spaces that weren’t filled with cars were filled with heaping hills of snow. Alex drove out of the main...

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Eminent Domain: 18, Conrad DeBolt’s Obituary

The Friday posts are chapters from my fiction project, Eminent Domain. They’re long, and they’re not for everyone, but if you read, I’d be glad for your comments, critical or otherwise.  18 Conrad...

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Meanderings on Comfort…

We used to jokingly call him King Henry The First. He died on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a cat’s life, well lived. I never felt right feeding birds while he was around; scattered bird seed was...

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