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Of babies and cakes and dang tough breaks –

The Saturday before I left for Kansas City, our Gin’s Kris delivered to us The Granddog for safe keeping.  Kris had driven him all the way from Missouri just to boot him into our yard, then turned around and headed … Continue reading

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At heaven’s gate

I am alone in my house. Gin and the fam are up in Salt Lake with in-laws. M is in the lab up at school. Chaz is house/dog sitting. G’s in his studio and all’s right with the world. It … Continue reading

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And they say you can never go home—

Second installment of the weird month series: June 2, 2008           I don’t really know how to explain Kansas City.  It has a mystic sort of significance understood, I have thought, by nobody in my family, except maybe by my … Continue reading

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A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Note: this and the coming entries are the follow up of the entry just before this one: Outline of the Weird Month.  Which is not actually its title.  It’s the one just under this one, before it.  Or after it. … Continue reading

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November Ghosts Two: in Lehi

My parents came to visit last month. They haven’t been here in years, mostly because my mother isn’t doing so well. But in October, my brother wanted my dad to come up and ordain him a high priest, and help … Continue reading

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