When I get a text message, my phone makes the noise from Super Mario Bros. when a player collects a coin. This is childish, but as Tom Baker once said while playing the title character in “Doctor Who,” “Being grown up is no fun if you can’t be childish sometimes.” This particular text told meContinue reading “Kindness flows from grocery delivery debacle”
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When melancholy becomes malignant, say something nice about someone else to make yourself feel better
Let me make myself clear: I’m not suicidal. I am clinically depressed. I also live with generalized anxiety disorder. Prescription pills work most of the time, but this is an exceptionally stressful period. I’m out of work. I’m trying to learn a new career at middle age. Arthritis squeezes my knees and tendonitis stings myContinue reading “When melancholy becomes malignant, say something nice about someone else to make yourself feel better”
Meet the guardian angel of my parking lot
From the desk of friendly neighborhood paragraph stacker Daniel P. Finney, Des Moines, Iowa. The acrid smell of hot tires filled the air, accompanied by the futile roar of my car’s engine and the squeal. Once-white snow sullied by exhaust fumes and tire rubber sprayed the vehicles behind me in my apartment parking lot. IContinue reading “Meet the guardian angel of my parking lot”
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