title: From the Pavement to the Park Bench: And Other Little Stories
author:  Christine A. Hodge 
description: Christine Hodge wittingly writes of motherhood woes and joys, living in community and showing God's love to the marginalized. She also has been seen jumping out of perfectly good airplanes just to test the laws of gravity. She is a home school mom and a freelance writer. She lives in Ojai, California, with her husband, Eric, and their daughters, Amber and Autumn.
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  ## [DEDICATION](part0004.html#toc_1)
  
  
  _To my mom—here’s a mean machine for the story queen_
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [EPIGRAPH](part0004.html#toc_2)
  
  
  _Die Todten reiten schnell_.
  
  
  (For the dead travel fast.)
  
  
  —“LENORE,” GOTTFRIED BÜRGER
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  [Dedication](part0002.html#rtoc_1)
  
  
  [Epigraph](part0003.html#rtoc_2)
  
  
  [Prologue: Season’s Greetings, December 2008](part0005.html#rtoc_3)
  
  
  [FCI Englewood, Colorado](part0006.html#rtoc_4)
  
  
  [Shorter Way, 1986–1989](part0007.html#rtoc_5)
  
  
  [Haverhill, Massachusetts](part0008.html#rtoc_6)
  
  
  [Terry’s Primo Subs Hampton Beach, New Hampshire](part0009.html#rtoc_7)
  
  
  [Haverhill, Massachusetts](part0010.html#rtoc_8)
  
  
  [Home](part0011.html#rtoc_9)
  
  
  [Various Locales](part0012.html#rtoc_10)
  
  
  [Spicy Menace, 1990](part0013.html#rtoc_11)
  
  
  [Sugarcreek, Pennsylvania](part0014.html#rtoc_12)
  
  
  [NorChemPharm](part0015.html#rtoc_13)
  
  
  [Highway 322](part0016.html#rtoc_14)
  
  
  [The Road to Christmasland](part0017.html#rtoc_15