A Short Story by Jackie Houchin I’m standing on the edge of a lookout point on the rim of the Grand Canyon. It’s just before dawn. I can see the sky in the east becoming less black. I’ll have to do it soon. I don’t want to be a spectacle for curious eyes. I just…
First, it was downpouring outside, so the floor was wet and muddy from previous customers. It also had a wet-wool smell, either from customers’ drenched coats or that mongrel dog who snuck inside to snatch a low-lying bag of chips before being driven out again. Poor thing. Several florescent lighting tubes were out by the…
A Story of Enduring Love, by Jackie Houchin Fifty years is a long time to love a woman, Abe admitted as he leaned out his window and breathed in the fresh spring air. A lot can happen in that time to cool a man’s passion and make him look for something new. But his love,…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 31 – Worse fear? What to do to shake it? My greatest phobia is standing on the edge of things that are high. Such as, the roofs of buildings, the edges of…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 23 – Five fun things for me to do. That’s easy! 1. Traveling It is fun for me to see and experience and taste new places around the country and the world.…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 22 – Making my pet understand one thing? First off, I no longer have a pet. For nearly 60 years we had dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, chickens and a couple turkeys. But…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 21 – My first name? What about it? Serendipity. No, that’s not my name! HAHA But THIS question on THIS date is. You see it was on the twenty-first of another month (my birth day)…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 19 – What makes a good leader? To me, all the attributes of Jesus Christ “shout” good leadership. He led His disciples by example. He taught them how to do things by…
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 17 – An example of feeling loved? Let me count the ways…. For about 21,900 days I have felt loved in one way or another. This is approximately how long I have been…
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