Friday, March 9, 2018
A Foot Away From Victory
"Last weekend, Specialist Michael Stone, an all American Paratrooper assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division (and is my Grandson Michael), competed in the All Armed Forces Combatives Tournament on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This was his final...
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Thursday, March 8, 2018
The Miles of Miles
Who knows how young he was when the World-Travel Bug bit him...or from whence it came... or where it went from there? I found out about it when when he was still fourteen and he began working on garnering finances to support his year as exchange student to Argentina. Some of you may remember me...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018
Down Memory's Lane
I just can't remember what I did with my secretary. I fell in love at first sight and spent many years perpetrating a special relationship. Her place was in my bedroom in a convenient corner and I spent many hours there being secretive, sharing with no one. Lock and key were important to me and I...
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Friday, March 2, 2018
The Last Car
Two long days of looking out the windows from various vantage points, and seeing only the coulisse of what was familiarly occupied for so many years, brings to me the feeling of the need to go somewhere, even though I have nowhere to go. The neighbors have not yet encroached upon the best parking...
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Saturday, February 17, 2018
Ut Is My Limit
I began singing in the church choir just about the time that the oldest member of the choir was sandbagged in the face on a dark night on his way home from choir practice. He only lived three blocks from the church so he always walked. Also his eyes were not good enough for driving any longer at age...
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Friday, February 16, 2018
Shall I Try Again Or Not
Spent all of my writing time and energy on a subject I love and just when I had it the way I wanted, I lost it. I never learn. I don't think I will try again on that subject right now. Another thing I lost today is the use of my Subaru. We have so much in common, Suby and I. I know not what is the...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
Growing Grawlix Utilization
In cartoons and comics, and other places where certain words are not allowed, profanity is often depicted by substituting symbols for words ("grawlixes") Profanity was once condemned, at least in my family. A child using profanity would now and then have the mouth washed out with soap, or the paddle...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Empty Pages
My Blogit Subscription Auto-Notify woke me up today and called to my mind the fact that if I'm buying another year of membership, I should be more faithful in reading my fellow members, commenting on their work, and make more of an effort to write and post. I have become so lax in showing up here...
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Saturday, February 10, 2018
Angel Baby
Today is Grandson Phil's birthday. He is my first and oldest grandchild. Today he is 32 years old. He is so fun to be around when he knows that he is the center of attention. I could not be around him today because I have been fighting a fairly mild case of the flu...not as bad as it probably would...
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Until Spring
"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh At the moment I am awake, at least half awake, but it is too cold to go outside, and really, there is no place I want to go. The snow is to begin...
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