La Bataille
/"Ladies, ladies…
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…furry fisticuffs are fast and furious. In seconds two sweet kitties morph into savage pugilists with no thought beyond knockout victory. I call their continuing…
By K. L. Shipley
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Eugenic Dissembling
/The masses foolishly…
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…didn't come-up with the idea. He did provide a quasi-scientific excuse for it with his theory of…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreReflections on the Morning Light
/Many can't live new days because their…
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…quiet joy in the light of the morning. If it was only a matter of angle-of-incidence, then the light of the evening would be the same as the light of the morning. It is not. I wonder why? Perhaps it’s because the morning light signals - new, while the evening light signals…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreSugar and Spice
/Man + Woman doesn't…
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…the old schoolyard verse about what boys and girls are made of. For the girls it was 'Sugar and spice and…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreHand In Hand
/Why do we think passion…
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…reached out to hers. She takes his hand. They walk together in committed love for the rest of their lives - hand-in-hand - a double troth of two souls made one. Marriage as it ought to be but…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe Idyll of Everyman
/When you think of your struggles as chapters in your very own personal Idyll, your life is infused with dignity and purpose.
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Idylls of the King and similar heroic Idylls, makes it seem that only the lives of Kings, Ladies, Nobles, and Knights are proper subjects for dramatic narration. Everyone else is little more than a…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreSearching for the Raintree
/It’s sobering to think how…
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…most folks will have no idea of what a “Raintree” might be, or why anyone would want to search…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLoose Talk
/Blah, blah, blah…
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…everyone. I'm Mona Pillsbury, my guests today are: City Council President, Burk Breslin; District-12 Council Person, Liddy Peachum; and County Treasurer, Kirk…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe Christmas I Prayed For
/The Lord works in mysterious…
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…of my family's Christian walk has meandered through many stages, each with a different theme. Sometimes we walked together, other times…
By Linda Troxell
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