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

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Remembering

Ten years ago I worked for Seattle Central Community College, an urban campus on Capitol Hill overlooking the city's downtown. Our college, largely because of the Coordinated Studies program run by the Humanities & Social Sciences school -- my department -- had just been named Time Magazine's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Great Grape Mystery

A couple years ago I planted a concord grape vine next to the arbor by the back deck. It arches over a wide stone step leading to the back lawn. Some half-hearted Clematis had grown there and bloomed with lackluster enthusiasm the previous summer, but they'd more or less decided "why bother." My ex... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Slings and arrows...

This is how my son signs off his emails. Good news or bad, it's his tag line. I don't know if it's a Shakespeare reference. More likely it refers to the bow and arrow -- he is a bowhunter. His father was a bowhunter and taught him that sport instead of baseball and the ordinary competitive sports... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Where there are stand-up comics, there are philosophers...

I enjoy the Joy Behar show on HLN when she hosts fellow comedians and they talk about writing comedy and how it feels to spill their guts in front of an audience. Last night, as we approached the end of the long, dry re-run season, Ms. Behar's guest was Ricky Gervais. While he's a bit snarky for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 5, 2011

Big Thank You to Ariala...

For the photo album she posted a couple days ago. At last I've put faces to those favorite "voices" on Blogit who have become more (much more) to me than words on a computer screen. What an extraordinarily beautiful population lives here. Brilliant! Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 4, 2011

The Geek with the Magic Touch

Son Guy came over to help me figure out the snafu with my newly installed computer. We unplugged this and tested that, he did every livin' thing he could think of to get my new wireless connection to get me to the internet. Nada. Zilch. Fogedaboudit. I had already griped about the Nerd Herd... no,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 2, 2011

Hunks or Chumps?

I believe it was 1964 or '65 -- I was a young wife a few years into my second marriage, when my husband's sister Lola and her family moved up to Alton, IL from their home in Tennessee. Times were bad there, the textile mill had shut down and Bub hadn't been able to find another job. There were... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Just a word about the Nerd Herd, Superspies and Tech Support

I don't know if you've visited Best Buy, the big box dealer in technology and appliances. The've got a service department and technicians who will install a home theater system in your family room, a GPS mapping thing-a-mabob in your car, and a wireless router to run a plethora of computer-ish... Sign in to see full entry.

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Here for a minute...

No luck getting to the email from the new computer. All is ok, considering fire, flood, hurricane, heat waves, earthquakes & etc. all over the country. Hope you are all okay. Love to Adnohr & Bird, I hope the new medicine makes things softer and easier. Geez, I miss you guys. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Beat Goes On...

During the last few days two of our great songwriting talents have left for the Other Side. Fortunately for us, their music lives on. Hurricane Irene is pitching a hissy fit, but I've got my fingers crossed she will not impact my daughter's first week of Law School in Orlando, Florida. We've had a... Sign in to see full entry.

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