“I know why they’re having the wedding at 7 o’clock,” Amy said as she drove. I listened as I took a picture of the giant Uniroyal tire. “So they don’t have to serve food,” Amy complained. Corean church without food?  Heaven forbid. Five years ago, before we moved, we went to Corean church … religiously, [...]

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“If I could just move my knees without hurting, I know I could walk,” the old traveler winced. He had a lot going on: blood infection, kidney failure, aches in every joint.  While everything else started to improve, the joint aches still bothered him. “When I was in Africa years ago, I remember they gave [...]

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I’ve recently started wearing my contact lens all day at work.  I used to just wear them for a couple hours if I go out or when I exercise.  They gave me a sense of freedom.  No frames to be bound in.  No barricades to my  expressions.  Plus, I got the sense that I look [...]

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“If a girl asks you who the most beautiful actress ever is, the correct answer is Audrey Hepburn. “Always,” My brother recently told me. “A lot of good that does me now,” I laughed. “Every time I’d tell a girl that Audrey Hepburn is one of my all-time favorites, she’d say I was just saying [...]

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Is there enough time for everything?  I wonder about this often. The parenting.  The drawing.  The writing.  The doctoring.  The husbanding.  The exercising.  (I haven’t been gaming this week except on the treadmill.) It seems like you can hardly cover one aspect above without neglecting the others. Parenting obviously takes the biggest chunk (at home), [...]

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