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  • The Fifth Fruit

    Slipping the engagement ring onto my finger, I hesitated before leaving the wedding band that usually accompanied it on the silver tray.  Lately I’d taken to not wearing the rings all the time.  I told myself it was because in retirement I didn’t always dress to go out of the house, and I was doing…

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  • Smart Car – NOT

    A cousin once told me that in retirement every day is Saturday except Sunday when you go to church.  That’s mostly true, but in retirement Mondays can also be Mondays.    I know because I had one a few months ago.   It was the first day of my grandson’s rocking climbing camp and I was…

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  • The Blue Jar

    I took the round white lid off the small blue jar, thinking of Mom and how I came to have her moisturizer cream.  Silly really, but somehow that jar had become important to me.  A link to my sweet Mom who was no longer around to need it.    I thought of her smooth skin, her…

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CHASED BY GRACE

An inspirational novel by Kim Robinson

Beneath life’s rockslide moments beats the heart of grace, producing hope in the most unlikely places …