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Friday, September 24, 2021

SOMETHING FROM MY NOTEBOOK

SATURDAY MATINEE If you go with me to the movies don't try to explain what they mean. I just want to soak up the stories, munch popcorn 'neath the big silver screen. I'm hoping there'll always be movies: no, the dark isn't hard on your eyes. I'll carry Kleenex to a chic flick, try to follow the plot... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 23, 2021

BICYCLES AND FISH

I was working at SIU in the '70s - a time of streakers and sit-ins. One day as I walked through the third floor hallway to my office I saw a huge poster tacked to a bulletin board. It did NOT have the proper rubber stamp of approval in the lower right corner. The message was new to me at the time:... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

MORNING RUSH

It was a little past 5:30. I was awake watching the news in my bedroom, hoping to fall back to sleep for another hour or so, when I heard thumps and bumps coming from the house next door - the one they're rehabbing. Thinking it may be some intruder - I mean, what workmen in their right mind would be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

PLOTS AND THEMES

There is a book for writers on my shelf: "20 Master Plots," Copyright 1993 by Ronald B. Tobias. It's an interesting and helpful How-To with common sense stuff you might not have thunk up on your own that puts solid chinking between the logs of the story you're building. These plots include, but are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 20, 2021

FIRST IMPRESSIONS...

Artie was a skinny little dude, ginger hair and freckles, kind of a geek. He had a way of dodging trouble on the playground, of being more-or-less invisible in the classroom, and totally invisible to any of the cute girls in his senior class. But his grades were almost off the chart, and he was... Sign in to see full entry.

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BY THE NUMBERS

I heard on the news last night the number of deaths from Covid in America has reached one in five-hundred. Two in 1,000 of the entire population. That means, in our little town of approximately 30,000 that we've lost 15 to the pandemic. However, there are five or more nursing home/rehab facilities... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 19, 2021

PROBLEM SOLVED???

I've had "digestive issues" for years - at least 15 or so. I'm sure you've seen the ads for various remedies, Colace and Pepto Bismol and there are dozens of home remedies to fight discomfort, to solidify liquid situations and encourage regularity. For a time I thought it was gluten sensitivity, or... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 18, 2021

On a scrap of paper found today, in my mother's handwriting:

Salutation To The Dawn Look to this day, for it is the very life of life. In its brief course be all the verities and realities of your existence: The glory of action, The bliss of growth, The thunder of beauty. For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes... Sign in to see full entry.

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DAYS OF OUR BACKYARD SQUIRRELS

Friday, near dusk: Itchy and Trubbles moved cautiously along Brick Street, sticking to the patch of grass next to St. B's school playground. They each climbed one of the Linden trees just outside the fence. Both of these advance scouts observed the same things: their Backyard Habitat was ready to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 17, 2021

DAYS OF OUR BACKYARD SQUIRRELS

(How the grandmother, leader of the Last Door Troop, got her name.) Long ago, in a habitat far, far away, a pup was born to the troop leader's mate. The infant was small, her birth a bit too soon, and so she was named Mini. But Mini was alert and eager to learn, and was soon poking her head above... Sign in to see full entry.

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