New short story online
A lot of women say they want a rock for Christmas. What if you got an actual rock instead? What if it was the best gift you could have gotten? Check it out. 🙂
angels
showoff
Once a week, I drive to a town TwentyMilesAway rather than the usual ten. I go to TenMilesAway and get on the highway, and our destination is just off an exit that’s another ten miles away. Under ordinary circumstances it…
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I’m afraid this actually happens
Imaginary scene: Setting: My living room, where I am folding laundry. My guardian angel: Oh, hello there! Angelic visitor: Hey, how’s it going? Say, I have a favor to ask you. {My guardian angel pulls a notebook from his back…
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An Angel Moment: all around you
Who’s up for an angel story? I play radio roulette. Although I own an iPod, I’ve gotten adept at skimming the “variety” channels, that special breed of “variety” that means “the same five songs every hour, plus a handful of…
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Feast of the Guardian Angels
October 2nd is the feast day of the guardian angels. Usually when people tell you their guardian angel stories, they tell you about being saved from a car crash and not “My guardian angel and I played a board game…
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Happy feast day!
September 29th is the feast day of the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, the three angels known by name in the Bible. Because I’m Italian, I feel the urge to acknowledge their awesomeness by making a special dinner and dessert…
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the road taken
It’s been a while since I did an angel-related post. I think the last one was when the windshield wipers started working again, which is far too long. It’s not that I haven’t noticed angel-work, but there are only so…
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The game of the name
My general practical nature came to the fore, and I wondered whether we get new names in Heaven. (As opposed to wondering, for example, what on earth I’m making for dinner. I only have so many brain cells, and now…
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why Jesus wasn’t born nowadays
To: virgin.mary@ancientisrael.com From: gabriel@janelebak.com Date: March 25th, 9:35:55 AM Subject: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hello Mary, Full of Grace I know this is kind of weird, but bear with me and don’t get worried. I’m Gabriel, one of the angels who…
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My achy-breaky blog post
Ever since I was a kid, it has happened sporadically that I’ll know what song is about to come on the radio. I’d be walking along and as the current song was ending, I’d get a sense of what would…
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