Carl Lance

Off Limits!

When my wife is doing laundry, the area in the house where she is working is completely off limits! We’ve been married for 41 years, and I have learned the hard way to leave her alone and stay far away. She won’t answer the phone and for sure won’t answer the door if someone stops […]

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It’s Simple

I like watching the Sherlock Holmes video series, because of his incredible powers of deduction. The answer to complex problems can seem so simple once you know the solution. Sherlock would say “it’s elementary” but he was a genius. In one version of the series, the simple-minded Doctor Watson would explain Sherlock’s deduction process by

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Happily Ever After

I love stories where everything “turns out right.” Maybe that is from the children’s stories I love that ended in “and they lived happily ever after.” That used to be the norm for stories and movies, but now they have tragic endings. When did misery become entertaining? I see lots of posts on the internet

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Dead End

We used to live on a street that led to a dead end. Our house was the last one and anyone driving by our place was usually looking for a way out of our subdivision. Town was in that direction, but you couldn’t pass that way. People would smile and wave as they drove by

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The End

I saw a picture on the internet that has become all too familiar. Police cars and fire trucks are blocking the highway because of a serious accident. An ambulance shows there are injuries or worse. The caption warns people to avoid the area because emergency responders are working a multi-car accident with injuries and fatalities.

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