Stuart Sheldon
What I Learned in My Bucket List Year in Costa Rica … by Leo Tolstoy
“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there...
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Stuart Sheldon
- May 25, 2016
- 3 min
The Other F Word
Late one morning, long before children, I sat on the edge of a New Orleans hotel bed and exhaled audibly. Inside my skull, a spicy Jazz...
Stuart Sheldon
- Oct 7, 2015
- 3 min
Buzzing From the Stoke
At a religious service last month, invited to pray silently, I shut my eyes, inhaled deeply and began my routine gamut of wishes:...
Stuart Sheldon
- Jul 29, 2014
- 4 min
Your Final 8 Minutes
The Enlightened One. “But, you’re gonna die soon, Daddy,” said my 4-yo, through the beginning of tears. “I don’t want you to die,” he...
Stuart Sheldon
- Aug 29, 2013
- 3 min
Meet Me in Heaven at Half Past Seven
“What’s fate, Daddy?” my 5-year-old asked last week. Whoah. I was still reeling from last month’s one-two punch: “Is God real?” followed...
Stuart Sheldon
- Jun 6, 2013
- 2 min
Relationships = Bottles of Tabasco
photo by Jenny Kaczorowski from WANA Commons We just finished bottle number two. Took us nearly ten years. Each drop another meal,...
Stuart Sheldon
- Feb 8, 2013
- 1 min
99 Problems …
The best way out is always through. Robert Frost A Bay Area friend’s daughter posted this on FB yesterday: I was going to post all the...
Stuart Sheldon
- Jan 29, 2013
- 2 min
My Mother Was a Beauty Queen
This is My Mom!! My mother was a 1950’s beauty queen. I have a photo to prove it. She kneels atop a real live tortoise. Beneath a palm....
Stuart Sheldon
- Sep 26, 2012
- 2 min
I Want to be a Chair
Until my later 30s the chair that I am had one very wobbly leg. I was off balance in the deepest part where intimate connection takes...
Stuart Sheldon
- Jun 18, 2012
- 2 min
For Father’s Day I Got a Vasectomy
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Author unknown Let me be clear. Being a father is by...
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