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They Traveled Down the Road Together By: Carrie Keiser In life, we meet many people as we travel many roads.  The choices we make send us down different routes with different people sometimes we trek together and other times we navigate along parallel paths for a while.  On the rare occasion, they cross and create something new. This is a tale of two trails that intersected and then merged to make a road travelled together. A young man set off on the highway of life, making exits here and entrances there, trying to find the direction he should go. At the same moment elsewhere along this life-way a young woman was also making departures and incoming lanes, searching for purpose and bearing.  Their tracks crossed and they spent some time heading in similar orientation. The young woman chose to serve along another byway for a time. The young man too chose service in another region. They each grew and developed on their own in their own way.  One day their trails crossed and lined up flowi

By: Ranne Leavitt The sight of the invading forces ships looming overhead made Karen cringe.  Sure, she had watched them invade the big cities on all the new and social media outlets, but she was baffled by their appearance over her tiny hamlet.   What had caused them to come to the Township of Crowboaken?  Had they already covered all the other cities and towns in the world?  Seriously, Karen thought, we are village of 250 people, 40,000cows, (thanks feedlots and dairy farms!) four churches, an equal number of bars, and a one room school house.  This should be the last place on earth aliens would come!  What does this mean for the world and humankind if they are coming here to, Karen thought out loud. She tried the police, but the lines must have been jammed with worried callers.  All Karen got when she called was the “due to the high volume of callers, your wait may be extensive” thing.  Well that caused the retired investigating reporter in her to get out and see what there

  Bob Always Knew He Was Special By: Carrie Keiser Time was running out, he needed to make a decision.  What to do, what to do? Robert Marcus Jones looked out the window and it came to him, he would take the job, move across the country and go for it. His family wouldn’t be happy with this decision, but coming home wouldn’t be a big deal for him. Bob, as everyone called him, could be home in an instant.  What they didn’t know, but he had know for oh so long, was that if Bob thought of a place he could just go there. He had discovered this one night after being read a story based in Ireland. His mother had been reading him, Brave Margaret An Irish Adventure by Robert D. San Souci. After she tucked him into his bed the night they finished the book, he was thinking about visiting Ireland one day. He closed his eyes to imagine the lush countryside and beautiful sea. When he opened them again, he was standing in the Irish country overlooking the Irish Sea. He was so surprised, he though