Carl Lance

Unexpected Events

The news these days seems to be all bad. Besides the terrible things that continue to happen in the traditional troubled parts of the world, a steady flow of tragedies are occurring in unexpected places. Today in France terrorists were shot dead by Police after they themselves had killed many other people. Paris is generally […]

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The least of These

We just returned from a visit to Hong Kong. A popular tourist destination, it is also a center of high finance and business. Our hotel was fancy by our standards, offering extravagant lunch and dinner buffets that always seemed crowded. As we toured the island, our guide pointed out the nicer neighborhoods where apartments can

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Someone Special

     It was Sophia’s Birthday and we wanted to wish her a Happy Birthday and let her know how much we love her even though we lived in Beijing, and she was in Texas. That was her special day, and she deserved a little extra attention. It took a bit of doing with the

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But GOD

I was born into a working-class family in the US. We moved a lot and about time we would get “settled” my mother, who suffered from depression, would get sick and be put in the hospital. My brothers and I would stay with our grandmother until my Dad would start all over in another place,

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