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Friends Come in All Sizes
......and even political persuasions. Let's remember to respect across the aisles.
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Dear Conservative and Republican Friends:
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Project 2025: A Cautionary Tale
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Happy Birthday to me! This is 76!
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Need a little comic relief?
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Need a little comic relief?
"Our Lives With Dogs" is at the publisher and should be available by the holidays. In the meantime, here is a preview.
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Dear Conservative and Republican Friends:
We differ in our worldviews and political priorities. Respect for one another’s opinions is the bedrock of our civil society.
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Another Bearable Claremont Day
A bear front-flipped over our fence and did a momentary handstand before backflipping, sticking a perfect landing, and disappearing into the canyon.
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Project 2025: A Cautionary Tale
A first-person, calm narrator imagines the ripples of a second Trump administration. This is dark fantasy. Look closely at this world before you vote.
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Detasseling...Neither promiscuity, virginity, nor motherhood attracted me, so what role models did I have as a female growing up in the…
Remembering a simpler time when I thought life couldn't get any hotter.
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Losing a Pet is a Dress Rehearsal for Other Loss
Lama Rod Owens reminds us that when we grieve for someone, we feel the pain of the loss of our own identity, who we were when our lives were…
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Massimo the Maltese
Massimo owns Janice Hoffmann (Stories by Janus), and calculus textbook author turned limericist, Laurence Hoffmann. They cohabit in Claremont, CA.
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My name is Janice, and I have a Starbucks habit,
This first-person narrator will utilize run-on sentences to tell a story, recounting a specific moment and its spinoffs in vivid details, emphasizing…
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Dad's First Day of School
This story happened before I was born, so you ask, “How do you know?”. I don’t know exactly, but I have some photos; I listened to my father’s stories…
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Stories by Janus
Stories by Janus
Janice Hoffmann delivers Stories by Janus, flash auto-fiction without saccharine, life adventures with a vivid imagination, empathy for humankind, and oodles of gratitude. I'm glad you are here.
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