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Sunday, December 24, 2023

CHRISTMAS, 1948

It had been a rough year. The cancer was gone, the family was back together after the three kids had spent an entire school year on the farm while Margaret took care of her medical issues. There was a lot of catching up to do: with the small town with their house at the end of the street, getting... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

EDUCATION

It is wrong for K-12 schools in America to phase out black history and black literature courses. This subject needs more study, not less. If today's children are kept in ignorance about the facts, how can they be expected to deal with life? Let the truth chips fall where they may. Let Americans be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 22, 2023

RUSSIA, NYET! UKRAINE!

SEATTLE: LATE 1990s At 60 I took a post-retirement job as office assistant in the Humanities & Social Sciences division at office at Seattle Central Community College. One day a new guy - an immigrant - joined the maintenance staff. He also signed up for English as a Second Language and courses that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

WEATHER

In the western foothills of the Cascade mountains, a hundred miles or so from the coast of the Pacific Ocean (in the late '40s and early '50s), we had coastal weather - overcast, cloudy or light rain much of the time, mild temperatures. One year we had a three-foot snowfall that shut down most of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

COLORADO

A friend posted hearts on FB in support of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to disqualify 2024 Presidential candidate DJT from the state's primary ballot, based on the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This Amendment was passed shortly after the Civil War and precludes any elected... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

LOSING IT

There were several TV shows featuring Oprah this past week - she appeared on one awards show - might have been the Grammies - in a gorgeous shiny purple dress, part of her promo for the re-make of "The Color Purple." She has got to be a size 1 or 2, thin as a supermodel. Of course she looks... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 18, 2023

Snowfall

Edith had been stuck inside the house for a solid week. Luckily, she'd cut enough firewood. But it was evident she'd have to shovel a path to the woodshed if this white drifting mess was still there in a couple more days. She'd kept busy. Her treadle-operated Singer sewing machine had joined most of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 16, 2023

THE SLEIGH

HOMER, ALASKA. In mid-July, Jan was on a four-day tour of Alaska sponsored by the Senior Center. They’d been to the North Pole, saw polar bears, one with a cub, floating on ice floes. Her long-time friend Josephine was her roommate, good old Josie who never stopped talking. The last night before... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 15, 2023

ALL THE NEWS, -- AND THEN SOME

Got a call from my daughter in Florida this morning, checking on the delivery of a package she'd ordered sent to me. It was here, all in good order. Then she mentioned reading the post of an old schoolmate of hers who lives here in town. The schoolmate had posted a news item about an 8-year-old kid... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

"BEGGING AND WHINING WEEK"

Let me start out by saying I am suffering from a severe case of empathy fatigue. Every ten minutes there's a commercial asking for donations to one worthy cause or another. Every mail delivery brings an envelope from someone I donated to in the past, asking for more. They want money for kids in... Sign in to see full entry.

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