Essays
Personal essays published in Piker Press — reflections on family, experience, culture, and the quirks of everyday life.
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JH Mae has an expert opinion on expert opinions!
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Hoping for greater spiritual growth, Bernie Pilarski continues his Lenten task.
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Have you grown anything spiritually?
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Look around you -- it's happening even as you read this...
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This Lenten Season, Bernie intends to do something different to remind him of what his life is about...
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Just do it when no one is looking...
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There's a much wider picture at work in our lives, as wide as the gulf between Life and Death...
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"When Worldviews Collide." A look at the way First Nation peoples view their history and their origins.
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What will you find if you don't let fear stop you?
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Rich or poor, old or young, one thing we all share...
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Hold a door open, pick up a book someone has dropped -- yes, the comfort of others!
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Wouldn't any woman want to have teeny feet like Barbie?
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Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on novels in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He's worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. He is the Treasurer of Shuter Library of Angel Fire, a private 501.C3, and desperately needs your money to keep the doors open.
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This is why Amazon Prime is successful...
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A table for two, candlelight, a touch of fingertips...no, wait there's more to love than that...
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If only birds could read, we'd put warning labels on the patio door...
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Ten years later, twenty years later, such a different life, but still somehow the same...
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In this entry, Richard Voza shares some thoughts on the poem's journey with the poet.
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Oh, for the chance to get everything you ever wanted...but what do you really want?
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Memories have a way of editing themselves -- especially holiday ones.
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Micki Morency is a Haitian-American, born in Port-au-prince Haiti. She grew up with six siblings in a very close knit family. She came to the US in 1973 with her family and settled in Massachusetts, graduating from Northeastern University with a BS in Finance in 1981. For many years, she worked as a Bank Auditor, before finding her calling as an advocate for the elderly, the young and the disabled.
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Do you see the flaws or the people you think have them?
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And are the beauty queens still beautiful? What about at their 40th reunion?
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A traveling itch invades, and drags Mr. Donnelly off to the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Well, peanut butter can be nutritious, can't it?
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Join Phillip Donnelly in his travel over Dublin's Liffey River.
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Love, companionship, nuturing...it's all there with Maggie.
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This week's featured blog asks an important question of all writers.
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Is the trend towards casual dress a good thing?