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Saturday, February 5, 2022

REACHER - IN THE MOVIES

I read the book by Lee Childs when it came out a few years back. I thought his 6'6" hero character - a highly trained martial arts dude with the ability to take out five bad guys at a time - was a bit of an exaggeration. But then I like the Superman character, who Reacher seems to resemble. Both of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 4, 2022

FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW

First of all, a big thank you to Tasha, my next-door neighbor, a working mom who's been stuck at home during Winter Storm Landon... Yesterday after the snow finally stopped piling up, she got out there in 18-degree weather and shoveled the front sidewalks in front of our houses, my entry sidewalk,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

WRITING & CROCHETING

ABOUT THE PROCESS: Recently I've been re-reading chapters of a novel I wrote in 2014 for NaNoWriMo. Wrote it so long ago I'd forgotten some of the ins and outs of the plot. I found a knot in the story thread - something that made me say "wait, what?" When that happens in a book I check out from the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

YESTERDAY'S OBSERVATION

INDEPENDENT - STUBBORN Early this morning I noticed an elderly woman walking with a cane - one of those with four balance hooks on them. She was bundled up, covid mask and all, and moving carefully along the sidewalk. I had to admire her for getting out and exercising even though she needed the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

BRAIDS, cont'd

At the last class session of the semester, Audra arrived wearing a graphic tee shirt under her jacket, a pair of skinny jeans and a pair of white walking shoes. She had unwound the braid and put her hair into a long ponytail that hung well below her waist. The change made her almost unrecognizable... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 31, 2022

BRAIDS, cont'd

There were some stories that needed telling, but Ben didn’t have the skills to put just the right words on the page to catch a reader’s imagination. A story told to buddies who knew the drill was easy. They’d been on the scene; they understood the context. Ben didn’t have to frame and underpin the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 30, 2022

DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE

I'll continue the story of Audra and Benjamin later. Right now I'm up to my eyebrows in OMG and "I don't effin believe it!" about something on my news feed - It seems Don Jr. took his 12-year-old son to a factory in TX where he and dear old daddy Warbucks were showing up for a rally. At the factory... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 29, 2022

BRAIDS

Audra stood looking into the bathroom mirror as she arranged her long braids into a crown around her head. She was not thinking about her hair, her appearance, or the effect of her carefully applied makeup. At twenty-seven she was one of the youngest members of the Crane State faculty, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 28, 2022

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE

When I graduated high school and got a job in Seattle I was just barely 18 years old. At first I roomed with mom's cousin Zany and her family and caught the bus to work at the phone company's central office. It was late 1953, only a few short years after the second world war ended. And then, after... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

THE PEACE ROSE

In our remote town at the edge of civilization, back in the 1940s and early '50s, one of the first signs that spring was coming was the seed catalog in the mailbox. Mom was an avid gardener, and started her own seedlings in a hot frame she'd made next to the garage, a bed of specially fertilized... Sign in to see full entry.

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