Archive for the ‘love life’ Category
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
You have considered that because Christ was born into this world and suffered and died, He can relate to us. But did it ever occur to you that you have been born into a world of risk and suffering in order for you to be able to relate to ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
"Joel, I think we should break up."
I looked at my dearest friend, and tried to fathom what she meant. "Break what up?"
But she didn't know, any more than I did. She talked for a while about what other people think, and very little about us. And I ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
"It is a wicked and a perverse generation," Jesus said to the Pharisees, "which seeks for a sign." Perversely enough, I seem to have a gift for making signs (in case you were seeking).
It started with last night's post with the church signs, created at churchsigngenerator.com. But my ...
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
The alpha wolf is out;
with jaws, and throat, and tooth of grout.
He burns a slender track upon the heath
and catches up the foundlings in his teeth.
He passes in a hungry blur
the horse's hoof, the cowboy's boot and spur.
His knotted belly is all hair and reproduction;
a wary glance and growl is ...
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Monday, February 7th, 2005
"There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden. ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2005
"I'm sorry," she said, "I can't."
"Why not?" I asked, switching the phone to my other ear with shaking hands.
"Because I hate folk music."
"Oh really?"
"Yes."
"Is that a fact?"
"It is indeed."
"Well," I huffed, "it just so happens that I hate...help me out here, I need a retort. What do I hate?"
"Good ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
"How would you describe...her?" she pointed with her uptilted nose across the leaf-strewn grass at a young woman in an oversized green sweater.
"Hmmmmm."
"Sensuous?"
"Well, no. I'm saving that word."
"You're saving it? Well. Chivalry is not dead."
"It's a good word, and I might want to use it ...
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Thursday, October 7th, 2004
That Sinking Feeling
I look back, down my outstretched arm, at the pale, cold and delicate hand of The Girl, and feel an ache inside. She clutches closed her black wool overcoat with her other hand, haphazardly concealing the satin nightgown underneath. Her winter boots beat their own otherworldly ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
It seems to me there is some dissatisfaction among the readers of the Joel Hoagland series with the choices provided in some of the installments. I must admit, sometimes my first reaction is to say, "piss off, there is no option 'E.'" And I suppose, in a ...
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2004
Joel set his coffee spoon down on the soggy corner of his paper placemat and then looked at Tamara. "Haven't you been listening? It was Karenne, obviously. She had golden hair; big hair! I'm not made of stone, you know."
"Anyway, Karenne had a cousin whose family ...
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