North Korea shells the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong killing two soldiers and two civilians. This! only months after they torpedoed the South Korean submarine Cheonan killing several people. Koreans seem to take these raised tensions more easily

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As my wife is sleeping, I open up her head and look inside. It's a mess. There are half-finished thoughts laying around all over the place- some discarded, some set aside, disparate ideas are thrown together,

I am coming home from work. A wrinkled old lady sits with a small basket of apples on the side of the road amidst a pile of empty and bundled cardboard boxes. She is selling the apples, the

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I Skype God. Me: Hey God. God: Hey Mark, good to hear from you. Me: You too. How's the weather in Prague these days. God: Nice and hot. I'm not in Prague right now