A reminder of his love for her survived all those years until she found it again.
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Story: Love and Farming
One day a farming family drove to another area of their state, looking for one more farm to buy. When they got to their destination, they wondered if it was a joke. The farmhouse was desperately in need of another coat of paint, and the tractor looked so ancient that they guessed maybe it didn’t …
New Series: Stories
In my My Process for Writing a Book series, I described how I got the idea for the book I am now writing. In the last month of writing this book, first draft, I came up with even more parts of the book I wanted to include. It was wonderful, never having writer’s block, but yet it was frustrating. I wanted …
Editorial: Do You Return Emails Quickly?
In the time before emails, business letters were written the same day to answer a letter received, or at the very latest, the next day. Personal, handwritten letters were probably answered with a week. Now it seems that business letters are not returned as quickly, and sometimes handwritten letters are not written at all. (I …
Story: Tomorrow Will Be Better
Hello–my name is Marcy, and I live in the desert. Today my newspaper’s headline was about the weather, of all things. “Drought ends–rain will return,” it said. When I was in the garage later, I checked on gardening supplies. Sure enough, I had returned my spade to its correct spot. I could actually garden again, …
Story: The Strange Day
My strange day all started with a trip to the gas station. I went there to buy some milk for my wife. She was busy cleaning the oven so she could bake cookies. Those darn cookies. They were for the annual neighborhood cookie exchange, and every year our kitchen looked like a big explosion had …