Marbles

The other day, a very nice old man asked me to hold out my hand.  In it, he placed three marbles.  He said to me, “One for you, and one for each of your co-workers.”
Alright, I thought.  A sweet nice man who just wanted to give us his marbles.  How sweet.
“Put it in your pocket. [...]

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Defeat

I’ve bitten my finger nails down to the nubbins (as my mother used to say. . .did she really know the meaning of the word?)

Noun
1.
nubbin – a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn)
nub, stub – a small piece; “a nub of coal”; “a stub of a pencil”

I was so proud of [...]

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Brrr it’s cold!

You know when it’s so cold outside that in a matter of minutes your nose hairs actually turn to icicles? That time is now in Des Moines. Actually, it’s worse.
This morning when I got off of work at 7 a.m. (I worked overnight this past week) it was somewhere between -3 and -5 [...]

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Good ole friends

My fiance and a couple of our friends attended a Drake University basketball game Saturday evening.  As a loyal Penn Stater, I couldn’t care less if the team won.  But we’re new to the area and it’s fun to do different things every now and then.  In the end, the game was pretty exciting and [...]

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