Author: Mary Kunkel

Ghostly Food

For days I’d been craving a certain sandwich and decided to give in so I checked the restaurant’s menu online just to be sure, and headed down there.  I was seated at a booth...

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Pound Foolish

My email spam folder practically fills up overnight with pitches for ways to drop sizes or lose pounds.  I guess it’s the time of year when people make resolutions about health but good gravy,...

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Old Soldiers

I was in a restaurant not long ago, a fairly small place with only three tables occupied. A man who appeared to be close to seventy was sitting at one of them and talking...

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Slow Food

This time of year, I crave slow food  — it’s one of my favorite things about wintertime.  Food that cooks for hours in the oven, in a crock pot or on a stove top...

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Pet Priorities

I have had the same pet sitter for over fifteen years — she’s one of the few other people I know who makes a regular habit of anthropomorphizing animals and we appreciate one another....

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Hello, 2016

I was out walking with my iPod in shuffle mode yesterday morning and when the next song started with “my brain is cloudy and my soul is upside down”, it stopped me in my...

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The Newest Star

My friend Molly died yesterday and my heart aches with the terrible loss. I grieve for myself, for her family and for everyone who knew her — the earth truly felt like a better...

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Rewarding Work

In my massage therapy practice, a woman brought her ten year old son in for a half hour session — it was the reward he had requested for having earned good grades at school....

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Facebook Envy

When I see impressive Facebook postings and pictures of things that people are doing, I want to click the “like” button, I really do — and once in a while it’s difficult. I want to be...

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Christmas Shopping

A woman that I knew when I was working, is one of the most positive people I have ever met — she could probably make lemonade with no lemons.  She attributed a large part...

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