Personal Stories

I like grapes. What kind of a first sentence for a blog post is that? No search engine optimization techniques have been applied, and it doesn’t offer any lessons or advice to you that you can use to make your life better. But I like grapes, and that’s an important statement about my life....
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Since visiting used bookstores is part of one of my job, I don’t like to be bothered, interrupted or detained when I’m at a bookstore. And I certainly don’t like a middle-aged woman stopping me from entering a store so she can gleefully confessing a crime to me. This is the story of an...
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When Ari Herzog mentioned on his blog that he was accepting guest posts, I typed this up right away. It was the first thing that came to mind. Ari’s commenters seem to like it, and I hope you do too. I intended it to promote my simple living blog So Much More Life. I...
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At times, I have a problem with clenching my teeth when I sleep, causing sore gums, grinding away of the tooth surface, pain in my jaws, pain in my face and even a stiff neck. It’s a bit unpleasant. My bad pillow could be to blame — or it could just be an inherited...
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As I sat in a Walmart parking lot waiting for someone several months ago — perhaps even a year or more ago — I scribbled on the back of a window envelope in which some kind of bill had been delivered some notes on what I saw. If I had gone completely paperless at...
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According to one of the pastors at a huge Baptist church on a hill above Austin, being gay is not a moral issue. The pastor is right, of course, but I like the statement and the way I received it for several important reasons. First, the backstory. More than a decade ago, David and...
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People can do whatever they want. I don’t care who people love, how they work or what they wear. Still, I’m compelled to make a couple of wardrobe-related observations. I wear very simple clothes. For me, it’s a polo-style shirt, jeans and some kind of sturdy athletic shoes all the time. My ensemble works...
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I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here before, but I spend my weekend evenings at Central Market (http://www.centralmarket.com) in Fort Worth listening to live music. In the several years I’ve been a regular there, I’ve heard dozens of bands. Many of them are good. Quite a few of them are really bad. The Geezers,...
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