Sparks
/Some measure success and worth
With Money. Possessions. Fame. Power
Yet these exist merely as constructs of imagination
Based in the physical world…
By Mike Turner
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Sketches of Spain
/When my wife Pauline suggested we spend our week’s holiday in Spain, I agreed straight away. Spain had always been special to me. I had been fascinated by the country since I was a child. My parents had taken me to Spain on holiday when I was …
By Chris Platt
Read MoreA Spark of Hope
/Sometimes we cower in…
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Solitude, silence, chaos, and confusion.
How could I keep my mind from explosion?
Fear powered the thumping and thrashing.
Was my brain curling and…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreFor You I Shall Be Strong
/My dear, like the fragrant bloom, thou art health
and beauty to my soul, and blood to my
veins which bring to body a bountiful wealth
of life which tearful eyes in joy…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreA Rough Gem
/I’d be a diamond in the rough
if I were made of firmer stuff,
but, in fact, I’m rather mellow,
somewhat jigglier than…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreTruth is Cringe
/I’m not half as bad
as Quinn tells her friends.
Phone to her ear,
she spills us…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreCoach Cool
/A personal memory of how a single incident can change life’s trajectory.
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Many years ago, I stopped into Roederer’s Tavern in Burlington, Iowa, for a quick Pabst. To my surprise, sitting there at the bar was the former Burlington Junior College basketball coach Ed Sparling. Back in the late 1960s…
By Don Gardiner
Read MoreThe Final Passage
/Mortality is more than mere statistics
when illness takes a devastating dive
and the failing body
reveals the fragile nature of …
By Shih-Fang Wang
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