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May.19.2013
One week later, Randy pulled up in Caroline's front yard. His old pickup truck rattled over the dirt drive in front of the house.
Caro came out on the porch, wiping her hands on her apron and quickly smoothing the loose tendrils of hair that stuck to her forehead. She and her mamma had been canning...
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May.02.2013
I wrote these words on April 14:
Gretchen and I got married last Saturday, April 6th. It was beautiful out — a perfect day for a wedding. Our wedding was at 5 PM at our tiny Episcopalian church we attend. My father was my best man. Gretchen’s best friend, Cindy, was her matron of honor. We had...
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Feb.16.2013
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/i_wrote_my_way_to_true_love/
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Aug.18.2012
H brings me coffee and toasted brown scones with gooseberry jam for a treat of breakfast in bed. I rise in a haze of sleep and unresolved dreams. The coffee is rich and black, just the way I like it. He whispers, happy anniversary. I eat like a hungry monster and down the coffee in a most...
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Jun.06.2012
June 6
THE ONE I BOUGHT
There are fairy tales I never gave credence to. Multiple bear stories don’t move me. Cats with footwear have not warranted a second thought. True love-----now that one I still buy hook, line and sinker. Work hard and true love...
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Jan.18.2012
Blog: Favorite Doomed Love Story
"Love The One You’re With”
Suddenly, it was there! It was the same time when my older brother brought his new friend to our house. I became obsessed with him. Just, one look at him and my heart raced, my hands sweat, and my entire...
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Nov.18.2011
Too many love stories I’ve read depict a brief encounter, a love that needn’t last, so not much is asked of it. Audrey Niffenegger’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife” gave me a much more familiar perspective of enduring love. Although Clare and Henry meet, marry, start a family on much the same calendar...
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Oct.18.2011
As I sat on the side of her bed performing our nightly ritual of saying prayers and singing our song, my daughter reached up and grabbed my neck and gave me a big ole' kiss. She told me that she loved me sooo much and then she said I don't want you to die. I said I don't either. Then she said if...
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Jan.01.2011
My most unexpectedly-wonderful experience in the last year was being in the audience for a seven-hour reading of The Great Gatsby. I feel thankful that my son insisted I rush for tickets to the always-sold-out off-Broadway play “Gatz” and that I lucked into a second-row seat.
I’d forever loved...
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May.26.2010
In my first novel, The Devil's Redhead, one of my characters makes that pronouncement, equating life with luck, and being lucky with terror. It was my way of describing the anxiety I saw in so many of the nouveau riche clients my wife Terri and I saw in her law practice, well-to-do people with real...
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