Author: Mary Kunkel

Dumb ? Deer

We have a bunch of deer that come and go, jumping easily over our fence when they visit.  Around the back of our property is what I call field fencing, four feet high and...

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The Position of Missionaries

Lately my neighborhood seems to have been targeted by missionaries from a couple of different religions.  They show up sporadically, sometimes ringing the doorbell and handing out literature, occasionally stopping their car to chat...

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Along Party Lines

I was thinking this morning about the telephone party lines in the really small town where I grew up.  A lot of people had phones that were on a party line — especially families...

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Walk With Me

When I started out on my walk yesterday, I saw a man further up the road, walking in the same direction as I was going.  He was using a walking stick and going more...

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The Simple Things in Life

I’m working on being more mindful — and part of that is finding contentment in simple, ordinary things.  I’ve noticed a common theme in conversations with friends — a lot of people are at what I...

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The Possibility of Change

  Several years ago I worked as a massage therapist in a Leadership Development Intensive program.  Massage therapy — plus business and individual counseling along with health and meditative techniques — was offered to...

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Please Text Me, Dear

I was amused to discover that a lot of people text each other while they’re in different rooms of the same house and I got to thinking about the pros and cons of the...

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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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