Marshall Democrat-News: A Complicated Way of Saying 'Apples' by GEOFF RANDS

I eat gross stuff
Posted Monday, April 19, at 8:58 AM

So, I was on a long drive home while thinking about how satisfying a McChicken sandwich would be. For the most part, I've successfully avoided fast food for a substantial amount of time (for me), but it just sounded so good: that warm chicken smothered in mayonnaise. Mmm...

New Year's resolutions: A great way to not change
Posted Wednesday, December 30, at 4:25 PM

Well, it's that time of year, again. After we've stuffed ourselves silly with sweets and emptied our pocketbooks to fill that bare space beneath our Christmas trees, we're socially pressured to make resolutions for the new year. Practically every American makes and breaks some, maybe most, of their New Year's resolutions. For that matter, most people break the resolutions they make at any given time...

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A relationship with Christ
Posted Thursday, October 1, at 11:08 AM

I was raised in a Christian household, but I've come to realize that there are a lot of things Christians hold to be important that I just don't understand. It was at around the age of 12 that I first felt my exuberant acceptance of religion beginning to fade away. ...

Let him go
Posted Tuesday, July 7, at 5:12 PM

The death of Michael Jackson has unlikely escaped anyone in our persistently connected society. The importance he had to millions as an idol and performer should be obvious to both young and old, regardless of how much one enjoys his music. I was never a fan of his music -- it's just not my style, for one thing...

I Heart Sunshine
Posted Friday, January 9, at 4:52 PM

Ever since I learned about Seasonal Affective Disorder a few years ago, I have known that it affects everyone to varying degrees, including myself, but I don't believe I ever realized just how much of an effect the sun has on my mood until quite recently...

A Complicated Way of Saying 'Apples'

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It was a beautiful summer day, and I was relaxing with my friends. One of them, Brian, was talking, and, as happens to me sometimes, my mind began to drift -- a bad habit, I know. When I snapped back to the moment at hand, I asked Brian what he had said. As he commonly does, he downplayed the importance of his statements, and when pressed, he merely said, "It was just a complicated way of saying 'apples.'" And so, the smart-aleck that I often seem to be, I said, simply, "Apples." The following silence was comfortable, but nowhere near as pleasant as being present for and party to a discussion, no matter how trivial, with two of my best friends. So, while sometimes, all of my speech is merely a complicated way of saying "apples," I have come to enjoy those roundabout things that are perhaps unnecessary, because sometimes, merely saying "apples" isn't enough.

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