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Life, Faith, Philosophy
Dennis

Two Years With a Monster

     I wish we could say that’s a wrap, nightmare over, all done with this crazy nonsense that has afflicted us these last seven hundred and thirty days, but that’s not our reality. As a family, we have never done anything in half measure, so why should it be

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Good Stories
Dennis

The Roar Says It All

     The eruption rivals that of a volcano. Our verbal explosion of euphoric joy shoots out of us like pyroclastic flow.    We are the champs three seasons running, but this year new teams join the league. Teams bigger and stronger than us. The pressure builds as we are

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Life, Faith, Philosophy
Dennis

Eagles, Addiction and a Spider-Light Sky

     “Is he doing to be ok?” I ask      “Yes, he will be just fine,” responds a mousy little man with an effeminate voice and hair creeping out around a toque matted down on his head.      I have my doubts; a balding man with teeth

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Book Reviews
Dennis

Stephen King on Love and Writing

Big Idea: To be a writer of any consequence, I must cement two inflexible habits into my daily life.  These habits must be maintained at all hazards. According to Stephen King, I must read and write in no small quantity. He says I must write at least one thousand words

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