Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Saturday, March 22, 2025

A DAYDREAM:

Recently, President Trump argued against the judge's order not to send the planes carrying immigrants rounded up by his storm troopers to Nicaragua. He did it anyway, claiming his planes carrying 270 men (without any due process whatsoever) were already out of American air space before the order was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 21, 2025

YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU GET

There's an old saying: You get what you pay for. In the case of our newly elected president/destroyer in chief, it seems to be more like: You pay for what you get. Too bad there's not a requirement that anyone running for president must know the provisions of the Constitution and have no criminal... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

FROM YOUR MOUTH TO GOD'S EARS...

After graduation in May of 1953, I applied for a job at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph in Seattle, desperate to get the hell out of Salkum. Our family was in poverty, there were no jobs Mom could get (all businesses were family owned and operated). Since the state was "broke" they only gave Mom... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

DELETE, DELETE, DELETE

You're welcome! I just deleted two posts. A political cartoon and a rant against what's going on in this country's govt. right now. Suffice it to say, you don't need any of that. Time to be grateful that flowers are blooming: the tulip tree next door, the yard full of daffodils of a guy who lives... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 17, 2025

Old Song Lyric from the 1920's & '30s

STORMY WEATHER (sung by Lena Horne, Etta James, Billie Holliday) "Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky, stormy weather... Since my man and I ain't together, keeps rainin' all the time. When he went away, the blues walked in and met me If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me All I do... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 13, 2025

SPRING IS ABOUT TO ARRIVE

It's gorgeous here today. A repeat of yesterday's sunshine and soft breezes and a high of around 80 degrees. Lovely change from those last couple weeks of ice underfoot, Arctic breezes and snow that refuses to melt. Yesterday as I drove out to do a bit of shopping I saw daffodils blooming along the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Imagine!

Woke up from a daydream where the Hon. Chuck Schumer gave a rousing speech on the Senate floor, and got all the Democrats and some of the Republicans up off their butts and shaking their fists at the freak show streaming from the White House. We ain't gonna take it anymore! That whole production -... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Writers Group

Maybe 15 or 20 years ago I belonged to a group of local writers who met once a week at our local Borders bookstore. We enjoyed being able to buy coffee and snacks at the counter, and could push a couple tables together as the group expanded. And then Borders sold out to another chain, whose name I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 9, 2025

THE INITIATIVE

A long time ago Dr. K had a small replica on his desk of one of those massive Easter Island heads. Someone in one of his geography classes had given him the sculpture as a thank you. When he became the director of our department, he placed it on a bookshelf in the conference room. This was where we... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 8, 2025

THE THING ABOUT BULLIES

When our little family moved to Salkum in the spring of '47, we did not get a visit from the welcome wagon. In that closed little society, newcomers were greeted with suspicion, and in our case, disdain. A divorcee with three kids, arriving suddenly just weeks before the end of the school year?... Sign in to see full entry.

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