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Thursday, July 21, 2011

We have a choice: we can piss and moan, or we can adapt...

I think maybe adapting would be the healthier choice. During the night I woke up to find the TV still on. Apparently I neglected to punch the sleep button on my remote, and so there I was, watching from my bed as the nature photographers and explorers wandered around an ice shelf somewhere in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Looking for a good story?

There's a website waiting for your inspection: Sniplits.com I submitted my short story "Cages" there a month or two ago -- based on its listing in Poets & Writers. This morning I received an email from the publisher, Anne, who said she's received so many submissions she's got all she can publish for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

When Mama was a kid

they lived in a sod house on 140 acres her folks homesteaded in North Dakota. It was apparently a tough environment, blistering hot summers, blizzards in winter. She said her papa had made the house by plowing a layer of sod from the virgin prairie, eight or ten-inch strips cut with a horse-drawn... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Nobody Cheers When You Win at Solitaire (story)

Derik was no king of hearts, no one’s idea of an alpha male. Nor was he a jack of diamonds. He wasn’t particularly entertaining, not a flashy dancer. His looks, his social status, his line of patter wouldn’t attract a queen of any suit, maybe nothing higher than a seven. In the ranks of a poker... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Did you ever date a guy named Chuck?

What's in a name, my friend Willie S. once asked. But it seems to me Chucks and Charlies are a type. Guys named Dave are sweet and steady, Jims are mechanically inclined if not downright genius and taking things apart and putting them back together. Every Richard has a bit of the Dick just below the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Update -- Remember Cringe? (aka Whinge)

She used to share with us here on Blogit her stories of an Irish girl moving to America and meeting her in-laws... I see her on Facebook from time to time. She's as beautiful as ever, has a daughter Rowan now coming into bud in her early teens. Rowan, as girls that age do, has mood swings. And her... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Happy Friday...

My PC has been growling at me the last few days. I keep getting pop-ups warning me that my CPU is being stressed while I'm online. Something about Microsoft using up all the virtual memory or something written in Computerese that I don't track very well with my not-so-logical mind. I suspect, Dr.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Coolest morning in a month of Sundays

It's 70 degrees this a.m. and the humidity is low. So it's comfortable enough to open the door and let the fresh air in. I caught a flash on the weather channel that the high for the day in Seattle will be 73. (sigh) Speaking of fresh air, I miss the scent of the forest where I grew up. Don't miss... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

When I worked at Adams Printing Co., in late '59 and 1960

there was a Linotype machine, complete with a gas-fired pot of hot lead, and an area where the lead type could be melted down, poured into molds and re-used. The long sausages of lead had half-circle hooks on one end, and were called pigs. We had a big dumb country boy who worked there at the time.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Obit

Sure sign of approaching old age. Checking the obits daily. I've been doing that for some time, using the old joke -- looking for my name. If it's not there, I can go ahead and carry out the plans for the day. Anyway a couple days ago I came across one for Dr. Fred R. -- one of my favorite English... Sign in to see full entry.

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