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Straight Paths: April 2009
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New stories published every Sunday in the Portsmouth Daily Times Newspaper and on this blog site. Please feel free to leave your comments each week, share your stories or send me an email (hardinl@roadrunner.com). I Am a Server. I’m revisiting my old friend, Gary, this week. Gary is sixty-eight years old, has congestive heart failure, and has been on hospice for over a year and a half. You may remember Gary’s previous column titled, “ Your Sins Will Find You Out. A couple of weeks ago I was standing in l...
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Straight Paths: July 2010
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New stories published every Sunday in the Portsmouth Daily Times Newspaper and on this blog site. Please feel free to leave your comments each week, share your stories or send me an email (hardinl@roadrunner.com). But I Never Lost a Thing. Deek reflected, “I’ve always loved children…A Mexican man and woman were hitchhiking from Columbus to Yellow Springs during sweet corn season…They had three kids with them so I picked them up. When they got in the truck I asked them, ‘...I came upon another fitting quo...
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Straight Paths: February 2010
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New stories published every Sunday in the Portsmouth Daily Times Newspaper and on this blog site. Please feel free to leave your comments each week, share your stories or send me an email (hardinl@roadrunner.com). You Can Count That a Day Well Spent. 8221; Sandy replied, “Where do you think I got it; out of a Cracker Jack box? 8221; Sandy may have been tired but she was still feisty. Sandy’s unselfish resolve reminds me of a stanza from a poem. Sandy concluded, “I just hope I can die with dignity l...
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Straight Paths: But I Never Lost a Thing
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New stories published every Sunday in the Portsmouth Daily Times Newspaper and on this blog site. Please feel free to leave your comments each week, share your stories or send me an email (hardinl@roadrunner.com). But I Never Lost a Thing. Deek reflected, “I’ve always loved children…A Mexican man and woman were hitchhiking from Columbus to Yellow Springs during sweet corn season…They had three kids with them so I picked them up. When they got in the truck I asked them, ‘...I came upon another fitting quo...
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Straight Paths: August 2009
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New stories published every Sunday in the Portsmouth Daily Times Newspaper and on this blog site. Please feel free to leave your comments each week, share your stories or send me an email (hardinl@roadrunner.com). Behold I Tell You a Mistery. This is the third and final part of a series about James and Wanda. If you read the first two parts, please bear with me as I update those who haven’t. (. So what do you make out of this; three people seeing similar visions simultaneously hundreds of miles apart?
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Straight Paths: August 2010
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New stories published every Sunday in the Portsmouth Daily Times Newspaper and on this blog site. Please feel free to leave your comments each week, share your stories or send me an email (hardinl@roadrunner.com). I've Never Been Without Someting to Love. As part of my initial assessment I asked Daisy, “Do you have any children? 8217; I told her, ‘No! 8217; I don’t have my string of pearls anymore but those little children are my pearls.”. Look back and evaluate how they’ve spent their lives. T...8221; T...
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Straight Paths: May 2009
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New stories published every Sunday in the Portsmouth Daily Times Newspaper and on this blog site. Please feel free to leave your comments each week, share your stories or send me an email (hardinl@roadrunner.com). Don't Throw Out The Beans. Vera was petite, soft spoken and deliberate. You could see it in her eyes. She was unhurried and she carefully evaluated facts and ideas before speaking. She seemed to respect the danger and injustice of premature evaluations and advice. Posted by Loren Hardin. This i...
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Straight Paths: March 2009
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New stories published every Sunday in the Portsmouth Daily Times Newspaper and on this blog site. Please feel free to leave your comments each week, share your stories or send me an email (hardinl@roadrunner.com). Gods Not Finished With Me Yet. 8220;For someone with good health you’ve sure had a lot of problems.”. Weeks earlier Selby had been in the Intensive Care Unit at Southern Ohio Medical Center. He reflected, “My doctor asked me, ‘Selby, are you ready to go (die)? Selby died about two years after b...