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Double Nickel

December 30, 2008 Joey Cope 0

The long-awaited day has arrived. Indeed, this is the precise moment in time I have talked about and leaned toward for a couple of years. Today I am officially a senior citizen at Peet’s Coffee. Ever since Peet’s opened in the corner of our neighborhood supermarket, I have been answering [read more]

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A Moment of Christmas

December 29, 2008 Joey Cope 0

We were expecting things to be different this year. Changes in the family have made us wary of almost every occasion. So it was with no small amount of dread that I awaited the traditional opening of gifts. Certainly, I thought, things just won’t be the same. For one thing, [read more]

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Faith

December 23, 2008 Joey Cope 2

This has been a difficult year in many ways. I didn’t write a Christmas letter to slip in with the cards that Nancy faithfully selects, writes personal notes in, and stays up all hours to hand address. Come to think about it, I didn’t write a Christmas letter last year [read more]

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Electrifying experience

December 10, 2008 Joey Cope 0

Everyone I know has had the experience. Maybe it wasn’t with the electric company. But the cable company, phone company, water company. So I went in early to a little business I accidentally acquired a few years ago to pay bills. Normally, I set the computer to remind me of [read more]