Saturday, September 26, 2020
How do you know that?
Two or three days ago I went grocery shopping during the early senior hours. The day was slightly overcast and pleasantly cool - I didn't have to fumble around with sunglasses and adjust them to the face mask. In the uncrowded store and among my peers, there weren't a lot of people going the wrong...
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Friday, September 25, 2020
Typical Tuesday - before Covid
Tuesday, Before Bingo Women friends gather at the tables to debate the vital issues of the day: ü What the grown-up kids are Doing Not doing ü Failures of The Establishment ü Vagaries of the weather ü Someone’s recovery process ü All the “ain’t it awful” possibilities ü Remember when… Kenny, who...
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Thursday, September 24, 2020
SOMETHING MY SON WROTE - FOUND IN MY FILE
It was beautiful here today. While walking Kaylee on a bike trail through the woods earlier this evening, I was thinking that the quality of light filtering through the trees was reminiscent of sunsets seen when visiting friends and family in Key West. As I was walking and thinking along those...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
JUST WHEN SHE THOUGHT NOBODY UNDERSTOOD...*
Outsider? It was a big surprise to find such lonely thoughts had crossed the mind of a great poet, renowned and revered, introduced by Mrs. N., who stood at the front of the class and bore the brunt of our boredom with po-e-try most of which was beyond me, beyond my poor comprehension. Such study,...
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Monday, September 21, 2020
WHAT I FOUND AT MY LAST JOB - FROM 1997
LIFE IN THE RAINBOW Classified Ad: Help Wanted: Office Assistant, SCCC Office of Humanities & Social Sciences I applied for the job because of the school’s diversity. What excited me was its unlimited ethnicity -- skin tones, eyes and cheekbones inherited from ancient peoples, hearts and minds from...
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
HISTORY 101
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the Notorious RBG, passed away on Friday. To say her passing was a loss would be a supreme understatement. It was a shock, even though anybody who was paying any attention to the news was well aware she’d been fighting overwhelming odds in her latest bout with cancer. She’d won...
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Saturday, September 19, 2020
Tara?
Scarlett O'Hara's home was known as Tara - a Georgian mansion with a portico and Greek columns guarding the front entrance. It was not a place where the Avon lady came calling. A replica of that stately domicile had been built on a large tract of land in southwestern Illinois, a 30-minute commute...
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Friday, September 18, 2020
A MEETING OF THE MINDS
The story goes this young wife climbed out of the bathtub one Saturday morning, wrapped a towel around herself and stepped out into the hallway, thinking she was alone in the house except for her baby who was fast asleep in her crib. To her shock a stranger walked through the back door, took one...
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
DON'T BE CONFUSED
When the nation's chief health scientist Dr. Redfield says masks are effective and a vaccine won't be widely available until a year from now, but Donald Trump says we don't need masks and the vaccine will be out by the end of next month - I am not confused. I believe the qualified, trained medical...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020
THIRTY MINUTES AT THE DMV
While at the DMV this morning, I noticed a really nice tattoo on the arm of the guy just ahead of me. We’d been exchanging pleasantries to pass the time. I mentioned that my nephew has tattoos on his arms to memorialize his buddies from the service. He pointed to a smaller tattoo next to the major...
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