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Friday, February 25, 2022

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

A gentle knock came on the kitchen door. Mother looked out before opening. I heard her wondering what Ella was doing out so early. But it wasn’t her sister Ella. It was one of those grubby-looking guys you see walking alongside the road, carrying a knapsack on their back. “Get back, Lady,” mom... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 24, 2022

OLD SONGS

For no apparent reason I've been dealing with an earworm - you know, one of those songs that keeps repeating in your mind. This one is an oldie, sung in 1947 by Tex Williams, whose deep baritone voice made it easy to listen to: Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette. Smoke, smoke, smoke and if you smoke... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

FIGHTING MY LIMITATIONS TO FIND AN ANSWER

Years ago I made a point of tuning in to NPR's radio show featuring Garrison Kiellor, and his "News from Lake Woebegon." I got a big kick out of his character sketches of the residents of that mythical Minnesota town, the bachelor farmers who didn't buy big equipment because if they got all their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

SCAM ALERT: "PEACE SOCIAL"

You can Google DJT's newly launched social media platform if you're interested in signing on to the former president's new online twitterverse. Two ideas came to me as I heard the announcement that "millions" are trying to sign up and finding much delay and frustration, so the launch is not going... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 21, 2022

FAIR WEATHER, HALF-MOON AT DAWN AND THEN SOME

Yesterday I got to Wally World, found the bargain yarn bin, there was plenty of red, green and white yarn to create a hat for Helen with the colors of the Mexican flag. These are also the colors of the Italian flag, as Sassyass_64 mentioned in a comment on yesterday's post here. Week or so ago I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 20, 2022

HATS MADE TO ORDER???

A year or so ago, before Covid shut down the senior center, I used to make hats for some of the regulars at their request. My little friend Helen, a funny and feisty woman who was born in St. Louis to immigrant parents, asked for one made in the colors of the Mexican flag. It was coming up on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 19, 2022

HELEN HAS A RIGHT TO PRIVACY

Helen stood at the counter in the Post Office lobby, sorting the stack of mail from her P.O. Box. There were ad flyers addressed to Boxholder, quickly tossed. Ads from local furniture stores, also pitched. She pulled her checkbook from the inner jacket pocket, wrote out the payments and stuffed the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 18, 2022

ENVY: IT HAPPENS TO WRITERS

"My theory is that the smaller the piece of cheese, the more the mice fight over it," Margaret Atwood. She was speaking with another writer on Tik Tok, (article reprinted on the Microsoft news feed) about how hard it is to break into publishing and gain recognition, a situation that may be even more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

THIS IS NOT A CHEERFUL POST.

This morning I got to wondering how the native populations in what we now call America handled criminal offenders. They certainly did not have thousands locked up in prisons. What happened to thieves, murderers, rapists, and wife-beaters? I’ve been taught these were amazing democracies; every member... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

MEAN GIRLS: IT'S NOT JUST A MOVIE

After our morning P.E. class, we 11th-grade girls were in the shower room, dressing to go back to class when Billie (aka "Judgy Judy") dropped her towel to show off her breasts. She said she'd discovered a new exercise that made those itty bitty little pancakes turn into a "C" cup. She demonstrated... Sign in to see full entry.

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