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Special Cases: Loyalty beyond words

Through the years I’ve developed a special affection for all service dogs. Besides the donations I’ve made to…

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Saluda News & Notations: When it rains on your wedding day, in Saluda

“My lips whispered over the names of things in the meadows, in the orchard, in the woods, where…

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Saluda News & Notations: Will the telemarketers ever give up?

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you…

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Saluda News & Notations: Savor fleeting sweetness while it lasts

“There’s a Buddhist story of a woman chased by a tiger. When she comes to a cliff, she…

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Saluda News & Notations: Town “tribe” readies for the arts festival

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the…

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Saluda News & Notations: Remembering my amazing mother

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” ~ Robert Browning Mother’s Day is this weekend. If you still…

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Saluda News & Notations: More back road observations

“…Spiral bound, basket tilt, the world was orbed again. Warp and wilt looped fine. Clouds blew—not breath-flipped but…

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Saluda News & Notations: The thrill of auto-paying my bills

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to…

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Saluda News & Notations: Raising memories from an old rock well

“As a child, they could not keep me from wells And old pumps with buckets and windlasses. I…

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Saluda News & Notations: Unwrapping springtime memories

“In the spring garden Where the peach blossoms Light the path beneath, A girl is walking.” ~ Yakamochi,…