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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Not 'the night before Christmas'

As I climbed out of bed and was turning around, the "Night Before Christmas" was circling round. In iambic pentameter, so proper and clear Not another idea could my brain even hear. It's cloudy and warm here, there's dew on the street, dog walkers and joggers are likely to meet. My neighbors have... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

About ICE converting vacant warehouses to prison camps:

For some reason Trump has a thing against new Americans, especially people who are not Caucasian. Hard-working folks who came to the USA to get a piece of the American dream of freedom (and justice for all) are being rounded up without due process and deported to any country that will take our... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 16, 2026

Apology

About 3/4 of the way into my story "The Widow," I got off the path to the ending I had intended when the idea first came to me. So much on TV these days about mistreatment of women (the Epstein chaos) and I imagined a scenario in which the woman takes over and gives her abuser some rough justice.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 1, 2026

Definition:

Graffiti: when someone puts his name on someone else's building. Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 31, 2026

War Bride, High School Teacher

After World War II, many American soldiers came home from deployments in Europe with a wife they'd come to know while stationed in England, France, Italy or other fronts. One of these was Mrs. Jean Newton, an Oxford scholar from England who had a Ph.D. and taught university-level courses in world... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 30, 2026

Two Never-Ending Stories:

1) Winter chill seems to be renewing itself again after a brief and not-very-warm couple of days. The weathercasters say it's going to be bitter cold again for another week or ten days. Oh, joy. More hot chocolate days. 2) Millions of documents in the Epstein files are about to be available to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Mystery Blob

A blob of snow about 2-feet across has gone plop on top of the 8 or 10 inches on the ground under the Maple tree in the front yard. When I spotted it, I was standing inside the front door and couldn't see the whole tree. I wondered what had caused it. A bit later, as I swept some snow off the porch,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Biting my tongue...

The ICE assault on Minneapolis, etc., has been on all the news channels for well over a week - the death of civilians (protesters?) who got involved with Border Patrol agents and ended up dead. To myself I call the brutes Trump's Troops, guys untrained in routine police procedures. They're not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 26, 2026

Hunker Down and Cuddle Up

Mama Quickstep's two pups were born out of season. Most Backyard Squirrels are born mid-spring or early summer, but she and Fozzy didn't meet until the leaves had turned color and begun to drift earthward. It was love at first sight; the two older members of the troop were single and ready to mingle... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 25, 2026

Short Story

She knew, as she lowered the.45, that she was going to regret not pulling the trigger. But she'd thought about it. How could she possibly explain to her children why she'd shot their father? The possibility of a trial and jail time didn't bother her. She could easily claim self-defense. People knew... Sign in to see full entry.

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