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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Dusty attics and old scrapbooks

Sometimes when you get into Ancestry.com it's like finding a scrapbook from your grandmother's childhood. The census records fill in a few blanks, as do the military muster files. Cleared up a few of my questions... I had this scene from my grandmother's early married days - Lucy and Bert in about... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Live Poets and Society

At the Labor Day Bumbershoot festival in Seattle a few years back I went to the author's pavillion to hear a poetry reading. Bumbershoot takes place on the grounds at the Space Needle / Children's Science Center / Music Museum. It draws thousands of people, and when you go in the gate you buy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The Timetables of History

I bought this big ol' paperback reference book years ago on the recommendation of my Journalism teacher. He said it would give writers a perspective on the era when they were doing a story on some long ago time. It's a general info source that functions like those newspaper reprints from the date... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 7, 2013

Henry's final project - Part 2

Henry grinned. The Committee already knew there was going to be a vacancy. Although if he’d thought he was going to stay on Seven, Henry might not have wanted to give up that job. “What do you think of that? Being a street cleaner?” “I dunno," Robbie said. "But it beats getting sent to Five, if... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Henry's final project, part 1

Henry had made up his mind to give up the attempt to get Margaret’s forgiveness. It’s too much to ask. I don’t deserve it. He got to the coffee shop early, not certain she’d even keep their date. Orrin was no longer his shadow, and in a way he missed him. He felt like Pinocchio without Jiminy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 5, 2013

The Green, Green Grass of Home...

Tom Jones sang that one the saddest and best. Why I'm thinking of it today? I dunno. Maybe it's that the green is under snow, and the winter doldrums have me. I oughtta be thinking songs like "Hey, Good Lookin', whatcha got cookin'? How about cookin' something up with me?" or "You get a line, I'll... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Jig Jag Jog, did you fall off a log?

Did you sink in the bog, did you play with the dog? What a day yesterday. The camera store called, my DVDs are in. It was a Super8 movie camera, the kind you wind up. No batteries. It was pushing 50 years ago when we took the shots, and there's no machine around since the early '90s for playback.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Funny thing about memory...

It seems everybody remembers differently. For instance, you and your sister were part of the same experience - something fairly ordinary - while you were growing up. But she remembers you instigated the trouble, while you're dead certain she was the one that started it. Mom always liked you best. If... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

About the Decker gang...

Darrell the Barrel, Lean Dean and ol' Denny Magoo, with Terry the Terror: they'll come looking for you. Both aggressive and arrogant, it's their game to be mean to the weak or defenseless. How they do love to lean they'll chase and they'll taunt for as long as they want yes sir, they'll have fun as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Henry's glimpse of understanding...

Until that day he’d spent his allotted time in the garden just looking around at the creatures roaming the woodland paths, deer and creatures that looked like them, some elephants, not quite as large as those from Africa, and wondrous birds that spoke to one another from high branches. Sometimes he... Sign in to see full entry.

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