Good Night, My Friend
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I can never figure this out – how does God or whoever it is that makes decisions such as this, decide which person should get sick, which should die immediately and which one should continue living?
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Gemma Nemenzo On Life, Love, Writing, And Everything In Between
Memories of Rain
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Rain to us was liberating. Not only was it water play, it allowed us to sink our bare feet into soil previously forbidding in its dryness.
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Intimations of Mortality
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The next time you wake up with an ache in your joints or discontent in your soul, pay attention. It could just be the pain of a life not yet fully lived.
Read MoreThe Soundtrack of My Life
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It’s amazing what treasures one can unearth when trying to unclutter a life.
Read MoreFree At Last
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Like a genie out of the bottle, our minds have expanded way beyond our youthful imaginings because we have gone through enough obstacle courses to harden and wisen us, and enough triumphs to make us kind and gracious.
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A Day in the Life of a Single Dad
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Years of cultural brainwashing on how a male should act had robbed him of the wherewithal to give his sons the tenderness that his mother provided him.
Read MoreI Saw These Happen: The 10 Most Amazing Developments in My Lifetime
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One good thing about having lived out most of one's life is that one has a past to look back to – a past that can be as colorful or as grim as one wants it to be, a past that can be mined (read: revised or embellished) for stories to tell the grandchildren.
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