Category: SAGE Story Telling Group

I missed last week when this was the assigned topic. My excuse is that I was in the middle of colonoscopy prep. All came out fine, literally and figuratively, with 7 benign polyps, an actual improvement from 2 years ago

So “for sure” is used to convey no doubt about something. I did find a much more colorful British version of conveying no doubt about something and that is “as sure as eggs is eggs”. I probably should have confirmed

I am not awakened. Oh, I suppose there is a minute chance that I have managed to be awakened or enlightened but if that is true I must say it is not what it is cracked up to be.  The

“They tell me Bernie Sanders can’t win because America won’t vote for a socialist Jew. I tell them America celebrates a socialist Jew every December 25th”. Taken from Facebook somewhere. I realize that is a bit of a strange quote

The following short quote is from a site on Facebook called Stop Homophobia: It is a photo of two little boys sitting on a pickup truck tailgate chatting with each other. “Does your family say a prayer before you eat

I have no doubt my namesake is St. Patrick. The clues for this are really not particularly subtle. I was born into an Irish Catholic family that paid close attention to the Church’s injunction that offspring should always be named

I assume that this topic refers to the use most often of questions to get a conversation started i.e. Ice Breakers. For me, though I initially took it quite literally and it conjured up childhood memories of breaking the overnight

I have had a long and mostly very pleasant association with sand throughout my life starting at a very early age at an Aunt’s house in northern Indiana. My Aunt Dorothy had what was called a “sandbox” in her front

Vodka was always my go-to alcoholic beverage. That is until several bouts of pancreatitis back in 2008. My drinking was something I always considered modest, and it was not felt to be the cause of my pancreatitis but rather a

The prompt for this week was Awakening but I am going to rename it to WOKE, a word getting lots of usages these days in society. Before I get to that let me address shortly the word Awakening. This was