Eating on the Road
The sun is setting as I leave my hotel room for a bite to eat. After ten hours in the car today I was determined not to drive any more....
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Morning Dilemma
At 7:00 in the morning, with whippoorwills calling, dew on the grass, hot coffee on my desk and ideas in my head, whether to go for a walk or to...
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September Thanks
It is September in Tennessee and, unlike in so many of our northern states where the sumacs have been bright red for a couple weeks already, we are still in...
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Thinking About Children.
I woke up a little before 5:00 this morning remembering a joke from my childhood. Being really bad at remembering jokes and given that this was a very bad joke,...
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What do you see?
There was once a young monk who ran across his master on a meditative walk. As he approached trying to be respectful and quiet, he saw the master spit on...
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A Visit to the Not-So-Local Outfitter
I always forget something. This time it was my water bottle. (You’d think that as many as I own, I would remember at least one of them, but no.) No...
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A Late Winter Lunch
It’s funny how perspectives change. In August, the thought of late February, conjures of images of darkness, bare trees, a chance of snow, and mostly cold—a climate I have long...
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What Jim Needs… Four Days Later
Four days have passed since I posted my “what Jim needs” list on my blog and I thought I would try the experiment again. There were a few of the...
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