Stories Archive

  • Living the Dream

    Tweet There is a family we met in Portugal who are blue collar workers – a mechanic and a school assistant. They have a small farm on the side with 600 olive trees to import to the States, and a smaller home farm. They make […]

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  • Ninja Elephants and other awesome stories

    Tweet NINJA ELEPHANTS Many young elephants develop the naughty habit of plugging up the wooden bell they wear around their necks with good stodgy mud or clay so that the clappers cannot ring, in order to steal silently into a grove of cultivated bananas at […]

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  • If a story isn’t real, but makes us smile, is it a genuine emotion?

    Tweet I read this on My Life is Average: Today, I attended a co-worker’s wedding. A little boy who looked about 6 was coming down the aisle and he took two steps, stopped, and turned to the crowd (alternating between bride’s side and groom’s side), […]

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  • Random FB Stories….of growing up

    Tweet FRUGAL SHOWERING AS A CHILD When I was a kid, we didn’t have showers at my grandparents. We would have a huge tiled bathtub (you could fit a single adult in there up to their neck), that we would fill up with hot-to-warm water. […]

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