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When a friend posts the following message on Facebook, what is one to do? Sooo, I got an Amazon package last night. But I didn’t order anything.It is absolutly addressed to me.Inside?A package of tube socks and a large bag of 100 condoms.My first thought was, maybe someone is playing a joke on me?Second thought, maybe this belongs to my ex husband…Or the universe is trying to tell me something?? But what?! As you may have guessed, my response was to write a short story! Delivered by the Universe Marnie found the package on her doorstep, unmarked except for her…

My dad never really talked much about his childhood. He was the oldest of five children, and as a baby, his family moved to the newly-established mining village of Ollerton in Nottinghamshire, which is located on the edge of Sherwood Forest. I never met either of my paternal grandparents, or any of my dad’s siblings. My understanding, from the few times that my dad opened up about his early life, was that his dad had been a hard drinking womanizer, prone to bouts of the blue devils, which is a Derbyshire idiom for low spirits and depression. During those times,…

This is another old poem, newly rediscovered and reworked. The third verse really makes me think about life’s trajectory for so many people, and how quickly you can reach that inflection point, where opportunities go from being boundless to being constrained and reduced.