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My writing is a mix of wit and gravity - not quite humor, although you’ll likely laugh, not quite spirituality, although you’ll feel it in your bones. The [virtual latte] is hot & fresh Sunday morning.
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Caduceus (opens the original)
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My grandfather was a physician in World War II. He was young at the time he enlisted - possibly too young, and yet mature enough for his age in a time before birth certificates that he was ushered into the pipeline of whatever doctoring training was provided by the US Army. I have to imagine his training included probably 3% of what today’s doctors learn. But enough to go across an ocean with a bag of basic surgical instruments, a polyglot’s vocabulary, an eager heart to help. I have some of the
Microfunctional (opens the original)
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Writing as prayer-and-process has carried me through every calamity in life, (and I do have a robust roadmap of treachery thus far), but this particular chapter has left me wordless in her wake. Back in 2020, when many of you started sponsoring my writing process, I found myself in the cradley paradox of proud and profoundly fearful that I would ultimately disappoint you weekly. Wow, they think I can write!Oh gawd. What if there are bad weeks?(there are bad weeks)Adding to that, I’ve fallen into
And Then I Found Five Dollars (opens the original)
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While I can tell the haiku version of a story, I often lead up to it with epic backstory, offering more context than was requested.I’m not a short story person. Maybe I have a natural talent as a storyteller, or maybe I’ve developed a storyteller talent because of my practiced verbosity, but as it were, my brain will go in many directions at once, sometimes stitching these threads back together and sometimes leaving them splayed out, like just as much spaghetti on an impatient cook’s wall.Is it
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