Sunday, May 22, 2022
WHAT ABOUT THAT BABY?
In the late '70s - early '80s - I finally got my stuff together, cleared my desk so to speak and signed up to go for a college degree. My older kids were out of the house, the younger two were in junior high and high school and I had signed them on my team. I need your help, I told them. I can't do...
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Saturday, May 21, 2022
PROGRAM NOTE:
Judd Apatow has just released his documentary on HBO on the life of Comedian George Carlin. His take on politics, culture and our human foibles made him as much a philosopher as a stand-up comic in my view. Seems to me we have a number of comics and late show hosts who make their living doing...
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Friday, May 20, 2022
SOMETHING TO PONDER
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
WHAT IF???
What if someone went into a bookstore or a coffee shop, took a seat at a table and pulled out a small placard that reads: Sell me your story, $10. Stories must have a beginning, a middle and an ending. Payment in cash, here and now. What would others do? Would they share a story? Try to bargain for...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
YARNS, A USED BOOK AND THREAD STORE...
It was lunch hour in downtown Mundane, when the bell on her front door usually jingled constantly. "Yarns" was only a block from the courthouse. When court was in session the jurors often had time to shop during their lunch breaks. After they had a sandwich at Mary's Luncheonette or stopped next...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
WHAT CAN GRANDMA DO?
Seems to me Rupert Murdoch and the Fox News organization is leading the spread of Nazi-style anti-Semitic "replacement" theory, the fear that persons of color will replace all the whites in power. The founders' old-line GOP policies and beliefs (pro-business and anti-tax) have been overtaken by...
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Monday, May 16, 2022
INSPIRED BY THIS MORNING'S SCREEN SAVER:
OWL GONE Four little sister owls, perched in a tree. One flew off to Timbuktu and then there were three. Three little sister owls, playing peek-a-boo. One disappeared into the night and then there were two. Two little sister owls, looking for some fun. One flew off to see the world and then there...
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THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY
Poll parrot had been living in the woman's house, in the huge brass cage near the patio doors since she'd been captured as a chick and hauled rudely through so many dark and noisy places. She had a lovely view of the trees outside, safe from the dark storms and deep snows. Poll could preen and doze...
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Sunday, May 15, 2022
MAZIE AND TOPPER
As Mazie buzzed a new territory she spotted a perfect nest site. She fell in love with it immediately, but her warrior instincts set her into think-twice mode. Yes, it was on a thick limb, but she'd seen no cats nearby. The cut limb had cured, and the hole at the center had deepened as the tree's...
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Saturday, May 14, 2022
EARLY TIMES AT SIUE
In 1958 - 1959 the powers that be in the state of Illinois took action to acquire a tract of land, some 2,600 acres, in Madison County. The tract was largely farmland, a site that fringed the city of Edwardsville. The purpose of this acquisition was not disclosed and there was opposition from...
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