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You awaken in the darknessAnd set out to break your fast before workThe floppy toe of your worn-out shoeCatches on an uneven sidewalk seamYou stumble and tumble downUnable to catch yourselfThe knees of your pants rip open firstThen the skin on your knees and palmsGives wayTo the rough craggy slab of ancient concreteYou do your best to staunch the bloodWith the cuffs of your shirtThen limp on to the fast food placeYou grab some napkins at the beverage barAnd continue to dab at the bloodYou take a place in line and noticeThe girls at the counterAre looking in your directionLike there must be someoneWith two heads in your proximityYou look behind you with excited anticipationWhen a young man wearing a name tagThat just reads “manager”Approaches and asks you to leaveSaying they don’t serve your kind there

Pieces of Poetry: Four Sauce on Sunday

By Chris Scott Fieselman | August 2, 2023

A sauce recipe in poetry form.

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Love Them Anyway

By John H. | August 2, 2023

One of God’s greatest commandments was love.

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When You Stop

By Maurice B. | August 2, 2023

As you are striving to do the next best right thing within your life, there are many individuals out there that are against the actions that you are taking.

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Extra Terrestrial Baseball Hero Lands in Cincinnati

By Jen A. | July 19, 2023

Near the beginning of this year’s baseball season, Joey Votto, Canadian-born, long-time first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, made an unusual prediction on MLB’s official webpage. He wrote that on April 15, 14 games into the 2023 baseball season, extra terrestrials would arrive on Earth. He said it would take five months for us to learn to communicate and befriend them. He went on to say that play would resume in October and that the Reds would sweep the playoffs to become World Series Champs. When I text a friend of mine who was struggling with the torture of knee replacement surgery in Cincinnati this fanciful tale she replied, “Well, looking forward to friendly extra terrestrials will give me something to live for.

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A shiny green bike and a bright pink helmet with yellow lightening bolts sit on the grass.

What a wonderful day in the neighborhood!

By Lisa A. | July 19, 2023

It was a beautiful spring Saturday in April and I could have been out working hard selling the paper. But my neighbor and customer had just given me a beautiful bike.

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Volunteer Spotlight on Annie Rees

By Norma B. | July 19, 2023

Contributor readers are you ready to meet our newest volunteer, Annie?

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Barbeque

By Maurice B. | July 5, 2023

What’s the true essence of barbecuing? It’s all about one’s time and effort. By there being so many fabulous ways to prepare food we can observe the factor of barbequing as a precious time-consuming point of view whereas there are various ways to cue. For instance, some use an oven and or the top of the stove to add tenderizing methods such as slow boiling and pre-cooking different types of food. Then some use wraps and the earth itself as well as coals and or wood to prepare food.