Tag: tiny house
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If You Don’t Want to Think, Don’t Read This
A few weeks ago, I was a guest on Peter Biello’s public radio show. In this space I talked about how Peter, instead of asking to recommend five books, had asked me for some examples of writing prompts. It turns out the prompts, more than anything I said, were of interest to some folks. Full […]
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A Patriotic Rant with a Twist: A Veteran’s View of the Anthem
I am an American who loves this country. I am a voter who participates in democracy. I am a patriot who served this country. I take my hat off when I enter a building. I stand when I hear our national anthem playing—oddly, I do the same when I hear the anthems of Canada, England […]
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“Now She Can Watch Me All the Time”–A eulogy (with jokes) for my mom
George Bernard Shaw said, “Life does not cease to be a comedy when somebody dies, any more than it ceases to be a tragedy when a baby is born.” This morning, we will explore both comedy and tragedy as we remember Bev Howard’s life. A Zen master once said, “Life is like climbing into a […]
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The Bobbsey Twins and the Persistence of Memory
On my way from Manchester the Tiny White Box in Pittsburg, I took a detour through Lee and Durham, two towns where I lived for more than a third of my life. Since I was meeting my childhood best friend Jonas for lunch, and had an extra 15 minutes, I did something I’d never done […]
Tiny White Box--Thoughts on Life, Death, Recovery, and Other Mundane Topics 