Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Noodling on a coming of age theme, cont'd...
Bart swallowed the last of his toast and got up from the table, went to the sink and ducked his head under the faucet. Patch didn’t see him. She had her back turned as she stood at the stove turning bacon. Then the boy was gone. “You got to call the doctor, Mom!” Bess said. “Not just yet, Bess. We...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
NOODLING - CONT'D.
“I gotta see the doctor!” Bess yelled, even before she burst through the kitchen door. “Call ‘im now, Mom!” Mama Patch was alarmed. She’d never seen Bess in such a panic. But at first startled glance she sawBessie wasn’t skinned up, no bruises or blood. “What’s wrong?” she asked as Bessie skidded to...
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Monday, May 21, 2018
NOODLING ON A COMING OF AGE THEME
Her birth name was Elisabeth, but from the cradle up, she was known as Bess. Not honey-baby-sweetheart Bess, not sweet little princess Bess the good sharer. Once she got to daycare, she was Bossy Bessy; if you happened to be in her play circle and you were halfway smart, you learned quickly not to...
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
BLURB IN THE YEARBOOK
"Life is sweet, but oh, how bitter to kiss an old tobacco spitter." MHS, class of '53.
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Saturday, May 19, 2018
PORCH PIRATES WITH A PURPOSE
There’s a charity in this area that picks up donations from people for various organizations, including local food banks and family support groups, the Red Cross and homeless services. I’ve been donating odds and ends, gently used clothing, shoes I’ve bought on sale that didn’t fit right once I got...
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Friday, May 18, 2018
THURSDAY AT THE CENTER - WRITING GROUP
As always, Topic 3: your choice, was popular among the writers at Thursday’s class. Ibbie wrote a piece about the cat who allows her to live in his house, a fine tuxedo cat named Velvet, (“V” for short). It seems V arrived on Ibbie’s doorstep some time after her original cat, Harry, had claimed all...
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Thursday, May 17, 2018
Rex Tillerson's Comments to VMI class on Wednesday
"If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom." Rex Tillerson, speaking to Virginia Military Institute graduating class on Wed., May...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
NOT-SO-"QUIET TOWN"…
All kinds of improvements coming to Quiet Town, but for the past couple of weeks it’s felt more like a disturbance in the force. The main and ongoing inconvenience is the parking lot project two doors up the street from my house where St. B’s has contractors leveling and paving three vacant lots,...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
"1200 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE" THE REALITY SHOW
Looks to me like the current show in the White House is being staged by the same "genius" thinkers that bring us real housewives catfights and other time- waster 'reality' programming with no redeeming social values. One difference is, its "sponsors" funnel their money directly to the 'talent' by...
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Monday, May 14, 2018
THE LAWN MAFIA...
Funny the stuff you find in folders as you sort and pitch, things filed for safe keeping years ago and found now. I’m asking myself the question we sisters asked each other after mother moved to assisted living. What the heck was she thinking? Why’d she keep THAT? “THAT” in this case is an ad flyer...
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