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My son, John is visiting this week, and several times my heart has thrilled to hear him utter four little words, “I’ll make dinner...
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hooleydd
Jan 5, 20233 min read
The Final Frontier Is Not Outer Space
It’s winter and the Snake River running behind my house is as grey as the clouds above it. With the passing of another year I’m thinking...
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hooleydd
Sep 1, 20223 min read
The Age of Passion
For the eighth day, I stared out the eighth floor window of the Hotel Elkhart. Below me spread the Midwestern town I grew up in. I’d...
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hooleydd
Jun 18, 20223 min read
Remembering a Man Who Knew Martin Luther King
Have you ever noticed that funerals for younger people are often much larger than funerals for the elderly? Especially if the elderly...
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hooleydd
Feb 22, 20223 min read
The Three O'clock Devil
It’s three o-clock in the afternoon and for no discernable reason, I pace through my house opening first the front door and then the...
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hooleydd
Dec 18, 20213 min read
A Christmas Wedding
The wedding was a week before Christmas so the flowers were poinsettias. The bride wore a long ruby-red gown, and not just because it was...
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hooleydd
Nov 24, 20213 min read
What Yoga Does for Your Spirit
What can you do with your body when you’re older? You can walk your body—sometimes. And stretch it. But how far? That’s the question that...
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hooleydd
Jun 5, 20213 min read
Why I Walk Under a Full Moon in June
I still have that little Navajo blanket and look at it occasionally, touching the geometric pattern, important symbols in Navajo myth. A...
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hooleydd
Apr 25, 20213 min read
How to Deal With Vacation Disasters
My back going out was the bad news, but there was some good news too. I was able to quickly locate a grocery store and buy a bottle of...
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hooleydd
Mar 28, 20213 min read
Where Do You Go To Grieve?
Historically, people have often went to natural spaces like gardens and grottos to find comfort in times of suffering. In 1965 I was just...
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hooleydd
Oct 25, 20203 min read
Poetry and Electing an Honest Man
Most people are familiar with Robert Frost’s poetry and particularly his most famous, “The Road Not Taken.” When I was in high school I...
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hooleydd
Oct 11, 20203 min read
Not Everyone Wants to Hear an Exercise Evangelist
The only reason I’d attempted a run that day was to lose weight and a four-block jog did nothing to the numbers on my bathroom scale....
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hooleydd
Aug 30, 20203 min read
Reality TV Has the Answers
What can I say? Last summer at this time I was reading a prize-winning book about brain chemistry, and this summer I’m into fat and...
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hooleydd
Jul 19, 20203 min read
Science Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings
It was a family mystery I attempted to solve several years ago when I visited ninety-five year old Uncle Clay. Clay was the only one...
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hooleydd
Jun 22, 20203 min read
A Way to Cope, a Way to Rest
People find all kinds of ways to cope during difficult times. The plague of coronavirus coupled with the anger and divisiveness that’s...
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hooleydd
May 31, 20202 min read
I’ll Cry Tomorrow…
Today, alcoholism is classified as a disease, and a certain segment of alcoholics prefer to manage their addiction as opposed to fully...
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hooleydd
May 3, 20203 min read
Remember the Life You Led in the 1990’s?
One of my cherished morning rituals, when I couldn’t get my kids out of bed to go to school, was to blast Guns N’ Rose’s “Welcome to the...
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hooleydd
Apr 19, 20202 min read
The Upside of Emotional Eating
Liver and onions? Really? A friend told me about this women serving a dinner of liver and onions to a man on their first date. The...
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hooleydd
Mar 8, 20203 min read
The Past is Not Dead
No, it wasn’t a dream, but I felt dazed, like I’d taken too long a nap. Maybe I time traveled because I’d spent part of this winter in a...
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hooleydd
Feb 23, 20203 min read
Sleeping with Strangers
Reportedly, Stu spent many hours in the hotel hot tub waiting for the call from Hollywood. But motels are mainly built for transient...
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