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Coffee Time: Siblings- Friends, Enemies, or Strangers
You grew up together. Fought over who got to ride the newer bicycle and who would have the bigger bedroom. Laughed at the same old TV cartoons while inhaling your morning ration of Kellogg’s …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “Hidden in the Dark”
Of course you’ve been there many times before. A dead-dark night when you have no electricity for some reason, so you light a candle. And immediately that thing shines like a diamond that has a heavy spotlight six inches from it. No mistaking where it is. If you are carrying it, everyone around knows it’s…
Read MoreCoffee Time: “MY EYES! OH, MY EYES”
If you see it, you can never unsee it. You hear it, it’s in your memory bank forever. Unless it’s the phone number to the pediatrician when your kid is running a 102 temp at midnight. But …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “SCATTERGUN YOUR ANGER AND REGRET IT”
Oh yeah, Brenna was furious! No doubt about that. Absolutely amazing how the very air around her sizzled, and at the same time, made everyone nearby feel like they had just stepped into a sub-Arctic …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “IT’S REALLY HARD TO LIKE YOU”
Ever been looked squarely in the eyes and bluntly told you are a bitter, angry person? Probably not. After all, who in their right mind wants to be within twelve feet of a bear and throw heavy stones at that huge, furious mass of muscle and bone? Nobody wants to face that. Facing that bear…
Read MoreCoffee Time: “IT TAKES COURAGE TO BE A LOSER”
Losing is not for the faint-hearted. It takes its toll on your mind, your emotions, and your body, no doubt about it. It literally takes a champion at heart to lose, because you have to have a lot of …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “DON’T BE A SUPERHERO”
Don’t kid yourself. You ain’t ever gonna be that strong, that good, or that important! To anyone in your world. No matter how hard you try, or how great you believe that you are.
In …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL ‘REAL’ FATHERS”
Father’s Day has rolled around again. Hmmm…do I write about the importance of Dad in every kid’s life? Giving every daddy-loved adult who reads this the warm fuzzies as they relive …
Read MoreCoffee Time: “DIVORCE IN YOUR REAR VIEW MIRROR”
You may have been racing to get out of your marriage. Couldn’t hardly wait until your signature was still wet on that divorce decree. Maybe. Maybe not. Instead, maybe you were one of those spouses who fought desperately to hold on to your marriage, but lost it anyway. But now, like it or not, a…
Read MoreCoffee Time: “LONE WOLF LARRY LIVED A LIE”
A heavy angry fist slammed down on the desk. To say the least, anyone near that room would have definitely understood that things were not going well with the owner of that fist. Wouldn’t have …
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