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Friday, May 17, 2024

THE CURATIVE EFFECT OF CUT AND DON'T PASTE

I had some bad old memories to get off my chest by writing to you about them. Thinking, even as I typed the words it wasn't fair to burden you with this crap. And then, three paragraphs later, I zapped the whole gripe session. The ghost of times past disappeared into the endless ethernet, dust in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

THE FIRST SUPERHERO

Couple days ago, the noon news on Channel 4. They regularly ask a trivia "fun fact" question about 12 minutes into the broadcast, a bit of relief from news of the grim. The answer is revealed just before the last commercial. That one was "What was the first poem ever to be written?" I majored in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

SCHOOL DAZE

As I watched the mamas and the papas pick up their darling, adorables at the school yesterday afternoon, I noticed the kids were all carrying extra bags, musical instrument cases, and wondered what was going on? Surely the 14th of May was not the last day of school. Impossible. That should come at... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

THUMPER'S MOTHER SAID IT:

"If ya can't say nothin' nice, then don't say nothin' at all." Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 11, 2024

TV EVANGELISM

At one point in the mid-1980s I was enrolled in Prof. Bill Ward's investigative journalism class at SIUE. Our big assignment was to check out TV evangelists. The biggest star on the preaching circuit was Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy. Just about the time our class was checking public records,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 10, 2024

RUBY, I MISS YOU

In mid-March I loaned my car to my son. He was to keep it for a few days while his truck was in the shop for wheel bearings or something. But he only got 2 blocks away, sunset was in his eyes, he misread the traffic light and got in a fender-bender. Poor old Ruby, my little red 2004 Toyota Corolla,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 9, 2024

I'M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES

The little kids on the playground a few days ago were playing with bubbles. They dipped a little tool into the bottle, waved it in the air - or blew on it - and the bubbles went flying on the breeze. Father Michael stopped on his way home for lunch and walked back across the street to join them.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

THANKING TEACHERS

Thinking of two amazing teachers from a few years back: Mrs. Mock (4th Grade) who read us her son's letters from the battle front in Europe. Mrs. Mock received notice from Uncle Sam that her beloved son had died in battle, and we wept with her. At that time, we all had fathers, uncles, big brothers... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

True Story

She had gone out with a history prof. a couple of times when he showed up at her apartment one Saturday without calling first. She was cleaning, wearing old jeans and a Magnum PI graphic tee. She glanced out the window before opening the door and taking a step outside. He stared at her in shock. "I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 6, 2024

OLD PHOTOS

On a mission to clear out some clutter, I opened a large shoe box full of old photos, some from as long as 70 years ago. Kids of mine, cousins too, aunties and uncles and family vacations; shots of the Grand Canyon, a pop-up tent with an inch of snow that fell during a Colorado campout one June... Sign in to see full entry.

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