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Never Have I Ever

Never Have I Ever…

My wife recently pointed out this game to me in a Target. It’s a card-based takeoff of the drinking game we used to play as colleges kids. While the scoring of a card game is somewhat a mystery (we didn’t buy it), the gist is simple enough. A player’s turn begins with a statement. “Never…
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Machu Picchu

Finding Machu Picchu

As originally published Jan/Feb 2014, Eclectica Magazine. Vol. 18 No. 1 The first giant I ever met stood just four-foot eleven and weighed all of 90 pounds. At first, I wasn’t sure the woman in Apartment Ten would answer the door. But I was a persistent child and, in spite of the silence coming from inside, I kept knocking. Finally, the…
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Twin Falls

Origin Stories

A few hours after we got home, I asked my daughter a question. The question was simple enough. How long was I on the ground? She looked at me with that pained, confused look so common to young adults. Something in my question didn’t compute, so I reframed the question. “When I landed, I was…
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