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"I believe writing is a precursor to thought,
not the other way around"
Garry L. Cox
The Bard of Appanoose
We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; I am here to do just that. Da Bard's Contrarian Bar serves as a vessel to project my passions and clue in my loyal readers as to what inspires me in this crazy world. So, sit back, relax, and read on.
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Living a Dream: Coffee With the Boys I
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under...
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May 26, 20165 min read
Living a Dream
No matter how fast we run How far we throw or how high we fly the earth will claim our mortal forms and we will wait like ordinary men...
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Apr 30, 20164 min read
Dad and Me: Acorns
It’s summer, Bible School is over and I’m too young for Little League. Mom works 60 hours a week as a caretaker, so that leaves me and...
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Oct 16, 201411 min read
Me and Dad: Dad on baseball
Garry: Hey dad, guess what my team is gonna be called. Dad: What? Garry: The Yankees Dad: The Yankees? Sounds like the Civil War. Garry:...
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Jul 15, 20139 min read
Bernice and Garry: Requiem and Godspeed
Requiem Today, 20 months after her passing, I find this memory, above all others, to hold the essence of the woman I knew and loved. ...
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Nov 2, 201210 min read
Run For Your Life - Progress Report
A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– and...
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Oct 22, 20126 min read
Bernice and Garry: Adventures in Paradise
The Triad The electric arcs across the great Prongs of our Life-Triad are strong, brief and luminous. And so it is with memories. There...
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Sep 19, 201220 min read
Bernice and Garry: Bernice takes a year
Our final destination would be the city of Phoenix and the two-bedroom condo in a Dreamsicle colored condo complex called Anasazi. This...
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Jul 8, 20127 min read
Bernice and Garry: Honeymoon Vignettes and Snapshots
Business First: A Trust Issue When I admitted to Bernice that I owed the Federal Government $10,000, she asked to take a look at my...
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May 5, 201215 min read
Bernice and Garry: Dawn of the Honeymoon
An obelisk can be any object that when touched by two people can become a portal to their future together. author unknown When Bernice...
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Apr 10, 20127 min read
Hall of Famers Among Us
One of the themes of this blog is that running will make better people out of us. I would like to share the stories of two exemplary...
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Mar 27, 20124 min read
Bernice and Garry: Notes on Grieving - You Can Go Home Again
It is summer, 1996. Bernice and I are driving her stuffed-to-the-gills Taurus on our way to our new life in Phoenix. After an...
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Mar 8, 20124 min read
Bernice and Garry: Love Finds a Home
February 17, 2012 marks the one year anniversary of the passing of my beloved Bernice. This post will begin with Bernice Remembered,...
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Feb 16, 201210 min read
Here’s Mud in Your Eye
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of...
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Feb 1, 201219 min read
Progress report: Between the darkness and the dawn
Darkness and light I am ten months out from the race of my life (NYC Marathon) and eleven months past the loss of my life partner Bernice...
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Jan 23, 20122 min read
Notes on Grieving: The lighter side of grief
Two guys girl-watching at a party First Guy: What do you think of that tall redhead over there? Second Guy: Not bad. I wouldn’t kick her...
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Jan 16, 20125 min read
Bernice and Garry: Prelude to a Kiss
Oh! How my love song gently cries For the tenderness within your eyes My love is a prelude that never dies A Prelude to a kiss Duke...
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Jan 6, 20124 min read
Progress Report: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Imagine a bumbling blogtser like myself has asked you to participate in a short survey. The purpose of the survey is to come to grips...
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Jan 2, 20126 min read
Bernice and Garry: Christmas in the Caymans
My original plan was to tell the Bernice and Garry story in simple linear fashion. The end of the story would coincide with my final...
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Dec 27, 20118 min read
Bernice and Garry: Sweetness and Light
It is easier to remember “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”, the tragedies, the down times. Happiness is generally something...
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Dec 17, 20114 min read
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