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• Take this cup away from me. . .

  by Mark Robinson August 7, 2013
  So, this Monday last my mother went to be with God.  Okay, she had been in declining health for roughly two years, and the event came as no particular surprise.  What did take us aback, however, was the fact that she contracted, submitted, and succumed to, cancer of the bladder in fou...
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• Mother's Day; Father's Day--The Lines Get Blurred

  by Mark Robinson May 10, 2011
  I realize that Mother's Day has come and gone.  With all due respect to all you mothers out there, married, single, or otherwise, congratulations!  My hat is off to you; my respect, love, and thoughts are all yours.  Moms tend to need to be myriad things all rolled into one-...
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• A Price to Pay. . .

  by Mark Robinson April 28, 2011
       As of this writing, my eldest son is supposed to be on his way back from Fallujah to Baghdad (via helicoptor, I might add), Iraq.  He's been there since a bit before Thanksgiving of last year, his Army Reserve unit having been deployed to "assist" the reg. ops. in ...
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• It Doesn't Matter How it Used to Be

  by Mark Robinson April 20, 2011
  Thirty-six years and six months ago last Tuesday, the best friend I had in the world leaned over a thirty-thirty deer rifle and blew himself away.  It wasn't until seven hours later that his body was discovered (unfortunately by his younger sister), while the family was at the dinner table disc...
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• Trials, Tribulations, and Enlightenment

  by Mark Robinson March 12, 2011
  Hey, everyone.  Sorry to have been away for so long, but, as John Lennon so succicnlty advised, "life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."  Over the course of the past eight months or so, I've been subjected to many, many, adverse circumstances which, collectively, allowe...
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• What Was, What Is, And What May Be

  by Mark Robinson November 6, 2010
       Of late, I have been dealt a challenge by the Allmighty, namely, a crisis of faith.  Not on my part, but,rather, on the part of my mother--who does not officially recognize my capacity as a priest of God.  And while she is doubtful concerning my--ability, I suppose...

• The 21st Century

  by Mark Robinson August 28, 2010
  Of late, I've been engaged in a bit of research regarding church attendence.  Mind you, it had nothing to do with how many folks attended, nor how many men, women or children were faithfully carrying out their respective faiths, but, rather, the propensity of individuals to gravitate towar...
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