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My mother hated dancing.  Which was a bone of contention in our house because my father loved nothing better than dancing.  He constantly was moving his body and sometimes there was music playing, but most of the time there wasn’t.  He danced when he was making dinner, he danced while he was doing the laundry and…

“I owe you a gin,” Martin said.  “You left the restaurant early the other night before I could make up for spilling your first one.”  I smiled at Martin before turning back to my computer, hopeful he would leave my office.  There was a reason I left the restaurant early and a reason why I spilled my first…

I’ve never had a favorite movie.  My friends all thought I was crazy that I never watched television or movies, but there were so many things I wanted to do.  Television and movies only got in the way of my life.  I tightly scheduled myself time when I got home from work so I could…

To this day, I will never understand what people could possibly be so interested in the game of football.  I tried to get interested and I tried to pay attention when I was watching the games with friends, but I never could get it.  Start.  Stop.  Start.  Stop.  Commercial break.  Start.  Stop.  I made the mistake of…

When my best friend’s wedding was delayed for no fault of her own, I knew they wouldn’t go through with it.  Less than twenty-four hours before the wedding ceremony was going to take place, a tornado had partially destroyed the church.  Instead of moving the ceremony to another, undamaged church or even the courthouse, Fran and Derek decided to put the wedding…

As I kid, I always loved going to fairs and it didn’t matter if it was a state fair, county fair, a fair in the mall parking lot.  I was obsessed with the food, the smells, the rides, everything about fairs had me hooked.  I begged my parents to take me whenever there was a fair nearby and sometimes they did, but more…

I never wanted to leave the park once we got there.  There were so many things and people to see, how could anyone ever get bored?  My brother always wanted to stay home and play video games with my dad, but I was always after going to the park with my mom.  My brother never…

My grandma always told me to ‘move forward in hope’ and I am just now figuring out what she means.  It only took me thirty years and her death to realize I could apply hope to my life.  That I needed to apply hope to my life.  Until my grandmother’s peaceful passing, I had always…

“He was my ex – he IS my ex.  But I definitely never said that about him and that didn’t ever happen.  Don’t you think I would have told you?  Have you ever even heard me talk about having a drug problem in my past?  Sam, I have only ever smoked marijuana twice in my life so.”  I thought…

I did know that Maryanne was having problems with her money, but the less she talked about it, the less I remembered to ask if everything was okay.  After a few weeks of her acting like everything was normal and continuing on with our regular eating out, I allowed myself to pretend like everything was fine.    Then came the excuses, the lies and…