Category: Essays and Stories
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Traveling with Stuffies
It was the end of Spring, 2013. I was BURNT OUT (all the caps and all the feels). Having accumulated more than 300 hours of paid time off I desperately needed to use it. However, having over-extended my delayed decision to the brink, I was not in a state of mind to settle on a…
cjrichardson
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It’s a Wonderful Life… Isn’t it?
In the 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life an angel (Clarence) is sent from Heaven to help a suicidal man (George Bailey). The little story The Greatest Gift, on which the film is based, has grown over the past 75 years from a couple hundred family and friends to an audience of millions.1 It’s a…
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Legacy: Part One
Someone is sitting in the shade because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffet I walked into the enormous brick building that I hadn’t visited in years. The grand lobby with its 20 foot ceilings had been recently painted in muted grays. Sunlight was streaming in through the large windows on this…
The Joy Experiment 