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    Once Around Again: Wishful Thinking

    July 16, 2026 /No Comments

    This episode of Once Around Again takes us back to 2009 - feelings of dread and hindsight showing it was all wishful thinking.

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    Improper Expectations

    March 8, 2026 /No Comments

    We had only been in Guatemala two weeks, and my mother had already asked me three times if I was happy to be here. And each time I gave her the same answer: Yes, I was happy to be here.

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    What Do You Know About Pressure?

    December 1, 2021 /No Comments

    The last three weeks of my work life have been rather intense. The feeling of being under a microscope is strong.

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    Die Hard 2 – Lie Harder by Omission

    January 1, 2019 /

    Observations on one of my favorite movies: Die Hard 2. I ask the questions about what happens after the credits roll and the McClane’s go off into the night together, leaving the carnage behind?

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    My So Called Life,  Divorced. Now what?

    My So Called Summer – Part 1 – Riding the HOV Down Memory Lane

    September 18, 2014 /2 Comments

    Drove back to Virginia to visit my BFF after a year apart. She'd changed after her stroke. I'd changed after the divorce. Absence did not make the heart grow fonder.

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