Sentences with phrase «often peculiar things»

Through memoir, creative non-fiction, personal essays, articles, poetry and flash fiction, I write about the funny, the sad, the beautiful and the ugly; the heartening, annoying, and often peculiar things that happen during the course of an apparently normal day while navigating this thing called life.

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Because of his peculiar talent for doing the right thing as often, or more often, than the wrong thing, Paul Larson gets enough rope to hang himself.

Sound is a peculiar thing, to which our ears are so finely attuned yet by which we are so often simultaneously confused.

Those are all things you can do at home — tasks like sweeping or ironing — it's just that in this case they're done to black canvases, paying tribute to grief and mourning, but not to something specific... It's a manifestation of an attitude, which is larger than one's own self... Right now it seems that in many parts of the world — or everywhere, even — there is a shroud of darkness... There is always a story under the surface, and those stories are often quite peculiar; they have a strange way of manifesting themselves.»

The funny thing about mobile homes is that you see them parked more often than you see them on the move, which perversely makes it seem peculiar when you do see a mobile home being hauled along a highway.