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Story Harvest

An Unknown Path

riding skateboard

This can’t end well, I thought, as I rode down the hill on my longboard. What if just around this bend it drops off or …

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Calling for Help

red car crash

Thirty years ago, my wife Roberta had a “rebirth” experience.  Let me explain: She and I had been married for five years and were living …

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Putting Away Christmas

Christmas tabletop decoration with tree on top of van

In many households, as well as mine, somewhere near the first of the year, the inevitable putting away of Christmas occurs. The holidays are over …

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Singing In the Night

lighted house at night

The snow seemed to blast through the tiny three-bedroom trailer that my wife, Sylvia, and I would be cooped up in through the winter. Sylvia’s mother …

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Mom’s Cancer

someone in bed

I was 13 years old in the summer of 2011 and looking forward to going into the seventh grade. But one day turned my life …

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Lessons from Fishing

Man fishing in a river.

I had woken up early that February morning, excited to further my fly-fishing skills in the dead of winter. The temperature had plummeted below freezing …

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My Soccer Injury

soccer ball

A sunny Friday afternoon on my university campus meant I could indulge in my favorite pastime: soccer. College was still a new, unnerving experience that …

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