Author: Mary Kunkel

Do You Believe in Magic?

I love magic. I always have. But no, I’m not interested in seeing one of those behind-the-scenes specials showing how it all works. I like the mystery. That’s why it’s “magic”! When I was...

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To Market, To Market

I just got back from a quick trip to the grocery store. I only wanted one thing and the store is less than half a mile away, so I walked. Although rain had been...

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Manners, Manners

When I was out walking with my dog yesterday, we headed toward a nice park about two blocks from home. There are tennis courts, which are mostly used for pickleball these days, a playground,...

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Birth Order

One of my friends always refers to herself as a second child  who really should have been the oldest in her family She is convinced she has all the typical characteristics of a first-born....

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Homeless Part Deux

I don’t know what happened to the “homeless not hopeless” man I wrote about recently. I haven’t seen him since that day. I know he told me he was eating what he could get...

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Playing Nurse to a Furby

My little dog is sick. Stops eating and hides under the bed. For two days this goes on and I take her to our veterinarian. He gives her a shot to improve her appetite...

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Houseless, Not Hopeless……….I Hope

When I was walking the other day, I saw a person lying comfortably on a grassy expanse of lawn up the hill. He was near a stand of Douglas Firs and would have been...

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Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You

Deep inside Squaxin Park, in the state capitol of Olympia here in Washington State, there’s an old wall phone installed on a large tree. People use the phone to call people who have died....

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Where’s Ed?

My husband’s mother was a widow for a long time and eventually ended up with a boyfriend, kind of a silly word for someone in their eighties, but I’m not sure what other one...

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Positivity

A few days ago I had the preliminary work done for a tooth implant, something I’ve put off for a long time. The periodontist was very young and either had been trained in advantageous...

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