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The Dilemma and the Dad

by MO VEAR
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There comes a time in a man’s life when only daddy will do.

My youngest son came home from school last week, and after bursting through the door with a backpack still slightly heavier than his own body weight, announced that he absolutely had to talk to his dad.

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Waiting In The Wings

by MO VEAR
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My brother Dan – peacekeeper, “diplomat” and our family’s attaché – was trying to convince me one day that we had a saint in our family’s midst.

As I smiled with pride and readied myself to graciously accept the compliment, maybe take a little curtsy, he said, “Out of all of us, Bev, will be the first one in Heaven to get her wings.”

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Challenge Day

by MO VEAR
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Son: “Mom, did you know that God can write on stones?”
Mom: “Really? How is that possible?”
Son: “With lightening.”
Mom: “Holy Cow! Lightening?”
Son: “Yep. God can do anything, Mom, just like you!”

Well, my life is complete. In the span of one breath and thirty seconds, my son managed to liken me to God – not because I am, but because he thinks I am.

Like a balloon, I felt myself fill; expanding with breaths of pride, pleasure, delight.

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You Can’t Fire Me; I Quit!

by MO VEAR
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Someone once told me when I was living and working in Los Angeles: “You’re nothing unless you’ve been fired at least once in your life.” Needless to say, they had just received a pink slip.

I was a bit cynical; I felt invincible at that age, like I could still change the world.

Since college, I had had a great track record of getting hired and staying hired. Back then, it was actually a good thing to stay in a job for long periods of time. I was the perfect Golden Retriever – the boss would ask for the seemingly impossible and I would go out and make it happen.

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Party Paradigm

by MO VEAR
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Attending a party, of any kind, is a strange phenomenon.

There are certain conventions, rituals, predetermined planning and, of course, a preselected list of partygoers that upon receiving an invitation, via post, can order up feelings of exclusivity.

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