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I have unwittingly become a member of the communist party

January 31, 2003 by Steve Peifer

You change when you have been out here for a while. We had a monkey come into our house last week, and while it was a thrill (and more of a thrill that he didn’t hang around, because monkeys celebrate coming into homes by pooping in them), I see them quite often and wasn’t totally shocked.
But this is the big one. I didn’t know that the Super Bowl was last weekend. What kind of American can I be if I...

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Ode to a very small dog

August 30, 2001 by Steve Peifer

This wasn’t an easy move this time. It is one thing to go to Africa for one year, and rent out your house to one of your best friends, and come back to the same neighborhood and same church and same friends.
It’s another thing to leave a house you love, a church you cherished, friends and neighbors who have been so part of your life, a great job, good income and stuff.
Some stuff you are anxious to get rid of....

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