Category Archives: Family

Travel Troubles

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Doc Arnett

He’d planned to spend the evening with friends, not in desperate search for a tow truck and a mechanic who might somehow consider spending his weekend rebuilding a transmission. Continue reading →

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Home Place

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It’s the years of living and belonging, of knowing folks, of having shared some of the worst and best that life can send your way. Continue reading →

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Enjoying the Garden

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Doc Arnett

We sat in the slight darkness on the sun porch, eating our toast and eggs, watching hummingbirds dispute access privileges at the sugar water dispenser near the bee balm and butterfly bush.
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Family Matters

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Doc Arnett

During that twenty or thirty minutes, he mentioned some of the challenges he and his wife had with the boy’s adoption and raising. Continue reading →

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Family Time

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Sharing the storms even we aren’t together is a part of being family, part of loving one another. Continue reading →

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Arrivals and Departures

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Morning air, cool, light, clean.
Children’s voices, soft in their early rising.
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Sunday Cookin’

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Doc Arnett

If the success of a family gathering is measured by smiles and hugs and deep, rolling laughter, this one was very successful. Continue reading →

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Hoarders

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It’s an interesting moment when we finally realize that the very thing we criticize about someone else is part and parcel of our own life, our own character. Continue reading →

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A Slow Planting

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Doc Arnett

This body is not the substance of our immortality but is rather its seed. And no seed can bear its fruit until it has been planted. Continue reading →

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Easing Over

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It is never easy to let go, to know that the last conversation upon this earth has been had. Continue reading →

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