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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Difference Between Prejudice and Racism

The word "racism" has been sprinkled throughout the headlines and news items for the past few weeks. People, and by people I mean the famous - actors, stand-up comics and talk-show pundits - keep tripping over what they refer to as the "N-Word." They posit about whether it's okay for any group to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

About yesterday's poem...

When I first read my son's post, I just knew there was a secret message hidden in the poem: a code of some kind. The whole thing was like an ode to joy, a celebration of a beautiful walk at sunset. Turns out I was right, the words "I Love You" are there. A couple months ago I noticed a change in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

As promised, my son's work:

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Cook's Day In

I went to the store, picked up the ingredients and yesterday, with the sun bright and the weather unseasonably cool (it was below 70 degrees, and the breeze blew through the open doors front & back) it was perfect cooking weather. Into the little crockpot with two luscious chicken breasts, unsalted... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Military Channel

During those hours when there's nothing on network or basic cable channels but extended sales pitches and re-runs of 40-year-old sitcoms, I go to the Military Channel for clues about World War II, and the Allies' Task Force 124 and Task Force 126. There was a brief reference on one page from my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Charles Bukowski's "Women"

I found this one at Books a Million a couple days ago while I was waiting for the other writing buddies to show up. Last night I cracked it open. I knew he'd written the script for the movie "Barfly" and skipped it after seeing the trailer. It looked like a downer, people throwing their lives into a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Writer's Without Borders Meet

At our writer's group last night three of us brought bits we'd written, and we gave one another feedback. Vickie had a continuation of the novel she'd begun a couple years ago - and she'd been in a hurry to print it off at work, ran into a compatibility problem on the printer and ended up with only... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Under the boardwalk, down by the sea...

On a blanket with my baby, that's where I'll be. Well, it ain't a boardwalk - it's my deck. And what's under it these days is a little brown bunny whose ears look pink when the sunlight shines through them. He's about the size of Itchy, the squirrel child of White Ears, but they don't seem to talk... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Robbing the pot

I went off to work at the phone company in Seattle at the age of eighteen. My little sister was fifteen, going into her junior year at MHS. Cooking and keeping house were necessary skills - girls were expected to catch husbands in those days, and were supposed to learn the household arts at their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Projects - there's always another one lined up

This is especially true if you're a home owner. Son Joe's been wanting to get at some improvements to his driveway, maybe build a patio deck out behind the house for as long as I can remember. But projects like that take a lot of money. Two years ago, he was in fear of being laid off - with the... Sign in to see full entry.

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