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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Non Sequitur, a Comic Strip for the Ages

Wiley Miller is a bloomin' genius, funny and profound all at the same time. Recently, among other story lines, Wiley Miller's comic strip has featured a character called The Eckert, a benevolent creature who is so full of kindness and generosity that it influences everyone around to be kind and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wait for the West Wind

Tie and Wil were neighbors, grew up together, watched the seasons change. They talked about their ambitions, their hope of flying high, as spring turned to summer. They weathered storms, even one particularly nasty hail storm, a circling wind and crashing thunder that took out many of their friends,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Octogenarian Logic about strange beans

When 81-year-old Jean came to the library yesterday, she brought evidence in her pocket. It proved her cut-rate grocery store had perpetrated a fraud. They had some nerve, pawning off defective Chinese green beans on her. It was right there on the empty bag, "this is a product of China." The picture... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Running out of patience...

When a body ages, it runs out of things. Calcium for one. It needs a bump of extra vitamin D to help the bones absorb calcium, which seems to leak out of older bones like water from a sieve. One day you can stand and walk and run, you feel balanced and sure-footed, and then you suddenly don't. You... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Oops...

Yesterday some time it occurred to me that I'd missed the ELF meeting on Wednesday.(E'ville Library Friends.) The new chairman of our ELF board had not sent out reminder emails. I hadn't noted it on my calendar. So I sat home during the meeting hour, studying a book on characterization and watching... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 8, 2010

The Not-so Haunted House...continued

The silence in the family room -- except for the scratch...scratch...scratch of the needle against the empty turntable -- continued as Henry Lee and Sylvia faced each other down, and Charlie quietly, unobtrusively removed his ghostly fingers from her shoulders. He sidled sideways in his ghostly way... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Not-so Haunted House...continued

Charlie, who had by this time managed to gather himself together, all the jumbled bits of ghostly protoplasm that had scattered when the snooty Sylvia Austin-Hapgood blew in, considered simply slipping through the ceiling and out of range of the young clairvoyant. But it was too late. He'd already... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The Not-so Haunted House... continued

All was tranquil that Saturday afternoon. Amanda in her cozy web behind the drapes above the window in the family room found herself in a half-doze, remembering the first time she'd heard the music from the old-fashioned record player, her daddy on the banjo, little brother Bub on the washtub drum,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

A not-so haunted house, continued

Amanda, the spider who'd been a fiddler in her past life and lived in a secret web behind the drapes at the top of the window in the family room, loved being in the room when the master of the house, Henry Lee, played his old recordings of down-home country music. Charlie the ghost who shared the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 4, 2010

A not-so haunted house, continued

Charlie, the lonely ghost who shared a house with the young Hapgood family, had died in the prime of his life, and it was not his fault. He'd been peacefully mowing his carefully tended front yard, riding the alternating pattern on his John Deere that kept the grass exercised and emerald green. His... Sign in to see full entry.

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