Category: The Daily Post
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Three Days
The world will end in three days Three days? Are you kidding me? That’s hardly enough time! But if that’s the way it is, what can you do? Delegate! Let’s see… Mom can call everyone and cancel. I’ll get my sister to return the gifts. Surely people will understand. There won’t be a wedding to come…
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Jack
Jack’s a strange one — but listen real close some time: he cry like his heart broke. Beats me why he cry Maybe he scared of his self; an’ what he done did.
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A Hairy Situation
Several years ago in Mobile, AL I belonged to a small Torah study group that met every Wednesday at lunchtime. The rabbi had a hard time keeping our group on-topic; consequently, everything but the Torah was discussed. One day was particularly memorable. A woman named Sharon began telling the story of how her son was playing…
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From Hell to Hero
Gloria awakened that morning with an erroneous smile on her face. Slowly, reality set-in as she came to accept the fact that Sunday was gone and Monday had taken its place. Monday meant school. School meant mean kids and bullies. Mean kids and bullies meant angry tears that led to more stuttering, which of course, delighted the mean…
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My Thunder
The Daily Post He was born in the afternoon, during one of the biggest, loudest storms I had ever witnessed. The best name my eight-year-old imagination could come up with, was Thunder. He was my very first horse and I loved him. We grew up together; best friends, Thunder and me. Forty years later, whenever there is a…
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