The Librarian Is Your Friend

June 9, 2008

I visited the home of a librarian in Mexico. A single woman, with her children grown, she had mastered the art of “simple living.” She worked for the American Schools in foreign countries, and found herself moving to a different country every few years. Because of those moves, she had learned to keep her possessions [...]

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An Adventure In Simple Living

June 7, 2008

Many years ago, in my life with “Mr. X.,” a Vietnamese family came to visit our home. By the standards in Southlake, Texas, which was filled with “McMansions,” our house was modest. In fact, we joked that we lived in “the slums of Southlake.” Our house was on almost an acre with four bedrooms (one [...]

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Fate

May 8, 2008

I watched him in fascinated horror. He was on his side in the shallow water; his body was heaving as he gasped for breath. It’s hard to determine the expression in a trout’s eyes, but I’m sure I saw his fear. My ex-husband had caught him, and stuck a yellow nylon cord through his cheek [...]

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