Training Mai Lin

By lovnbowser. I was a nineteen-year-old junior with a modicum of talent. During the summer program, the assistant administrator of women’s athletics approached me about sharing a room and mentoring an incoming freshman hotshot swimmer. We had finished second in the NCAA women’s swimming championships, and this new freshman was supposed to be the answer for us to climb to the pinnacle. I wasn’t a swimmer. I played basketball. But, I was acknowledged as one who could adapt and get

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A visit from Ted’s Dog

olestray It’s cold this weekend. Miserably cold. I had a lot of yard work to do and not nearly enough time to get it done. I had already cleaned the leaves and pine straw out of the pool, put the giant candy canes on the cedar tree out front, and walked over to my sister’s weekend retreat on the big lake and borrowed an extra trash can. I am in the process of gathering up trash from all of the

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The Comet

Dragontail Allen was sitting at his terminal, fixing another web page. As the IT consultant, he was responsible for web changes among a million other things. “Again? Damn it,” he cursed softly. “How many times can you change one word?” The worst part of his day was changing pages, 20 or 30 emails a day with change requests. At least they were small corrections. Looking around his work station he was quite happy with his situation in life, earning nearly

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A Day at the Zoo

Author Unknown I had a-couple-of-days off from work starting tomorrow. My husband Johan did not. In fact, he had a short business trip scheduled that would take him away for one night. So we talked about my time. He seemed interested if I had any plans. I was non-committal and uncertain, so he suggested the local Zoo. He knew I have always enjoyed going to the zoo, and it’s easy to get too. He encouraged me, and it felt good

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