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My caller waited on the phone.  In an age of instant gratification, he wanted some instant answers to make himself feel better. I explained that I had seen men take two entirely different paths to satisfy this need. The first path was shorter but would lead ultimately to dissatisfaction, and the second path would take […]

The call came into the station half-way through a show in late August of 2011.  Outside, the two-lane highway that fronted the building was dark and deserted.  A Harvest moon hung in the sky, full, bright, sharp-edged, and looking painted on the plate glass windows of the studio. I had been talking for about an

i Deanna sat pensively behind her computer as she stared at the bewildering list of questions on the dating form.  She had never tried computer dating before.  All her friends had made fun of it.  But the house was empty now, her husband Bill had died almost nine years ago, and her two children were

The morning was blustery and cold.  Just two days past the New Year’s holiday, Phil sat behind the steering wheel of his Honda Accord warming the car while he played with the buttons on the radio.  He’d already stowed the luggage in the trunk. In the house, his wife Mary, his daughter Allison, and mother-in-law

With certainty, Mary loves her husband Phil, but there are a few things about him that drive her nuts.  As they walked the Mall recently, it seemed to her that other women dazzled Phil as much or more so than the holiday lights in the brightly lit stores.  On more than one occasion, she caught

Hiram worked as an accountant for forty years.  The early years were lean, but for most of those years, his firm thrived.  By today’s standards, Hiram and his family lived in a modest but comfortable house.  It was close to schools and temple and was just a short bus ride into New York City.  It

Roger lay on the grass, where he had just fallen, soaked and sweating profusely, unsure of what had just happened.  Above him, hovered the sixteen pretty thirteen-year-old girls of his soccer team.  They circled him slowly with a maniacal glee written all over their faces having just pelted him with sixteen water-balloons. He wasn’t hurt