December 2010
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Fishnet and Bowties
Another bore of a party he thought to himself as he worked his way across the room to the bar. His boss’s parties always attracted the most boorish people, the kind of people that made dentists look exciting. He took solace in the fact that the bar was open and ordered a Scotch neat. Turning around he rested his elbows on the bar and scanned the room for even a glimmer of something interesting. ...
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How to Receive
Several lifetimes ago, I sat in the front seat of a hearse with a funeral director that has known my family for generations and an old retired country minister. We took the long blacktop road out to a graveyard to bury a matriarch that we we all knew but to which none of us was related. On the way the old minister decided that I was to officiate the graveside service. It would be my first. I was...