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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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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

MISSIONARY ON PATROL

My grandma Lucy was a God-fearing woman who quoted the Bible and spoke the English as printed in the King James version. She used "thee" and "thou" in her everyday speech, and shared with us kids her belief that each and every one of us had a personal guardian angel, and that was the only way we... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

THE BRASS BED

Let me preface this little story with a disclaimer of sorts; it happened in the '80s, when the sexual revolution was in full swing. Women's rights issues were in the news then as Covid deniers and the Putin-Biden faceoff are our headlines today. I was at the time single again, and as the saying... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 24, 2022

ESSENTIAL WORKERS

In June of 1960, a week or two before my court appearance to divorce the monster, I went to work in the Physical Plant department at Southern Illinois University's Alton campus. The office was in the basement below the gymnasium where P.E. and dance classes were held, along with intramural... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 23, 2022

THE AFGHAN PROBLEM - IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK - AND A PUN

I've built up an inventory of crocheted beanies, also hat & scarf sets. Three of those giant storage totes full of them, all sizes & colors, from adorable decorated new baby softies to thick bright orange headgear suitable for hunters to wear in the woods so they won't be mistaken for game. I've... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 22, 2022

FEMINISTA FACULTY

It was the late 90s, a few years after "Women's Lib" and the demonstrations in the streets that included burning bras and posting slogans on the campus bulletin board that read "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." On the University of Washington campus a certain misogynistic professor,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 21, 2022

SLEPT IN THIS MORNING...

Usually up around 5: - did get up & take my morning meds which have to be on an empty stomach. Went back to bed to watch the local news and woke at 8:30 - never happens, though I always welcome a 2+ hour stretch of sleep at any hour. Son Rich is in hosp. for a colonoscopy this morning, an occasion... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 20, 2022

ANOTHER USE FOR YOUR DREMEL TOOL

Sometimes it's difficult to pull your foot up into your lap to do a pedicure. Those fingernail clippers are sometimes just not strong enough to tackle the tough thick nails that grow on your major toes. And it takes half an hour or the better part of it to get to each toe in turn, and switch legs.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

ART MIMICS LIFE

When I was much younger I was approached inappropriately by a history prof. who I later learned was well known as a womanizer, but one who had never received any kind of disciplinary action from the administration. Boys will be boys, and rank has its privileges seemed to be the rule in those days,... Sign in to see full entry.

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