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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

MATH PROBLEMS

From the cradle up, Jessi had loved odd numbers and her feelings toward the evens ranged from boredom to outright hostility. She liked odd people better than those who seemed bent on converting everyone they met to the straight and narrow, to being downright upright. Her first lover was both... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 27, 2021

A WRITING EXERCISE

LECLAIRE PARK Carrie sat on her usual spot on the park bench shortly after sunrise that Saturday morning, holding an empty coffee cup. She wasn't quite ready to leave her place of tranquility. The lake was so calm today but for the circulating fountain in the center. It swished and splashed in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 26, 2021

FROM FEBRUARY, 2001 (Remembering a former boss.)

RED TIE, WHITE SHIRT, BLUE SUIT He wears the oppressor's uniform. He patronizes; pretense of charm and sarcasm are his favorite tools. He thinks the workers fools. They trained him how to do his job now he steps on every underslob and takes all they give as his just due with no gratitude for his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 25, 2021

THE LUNCH LADIES

This morning I saw a news feature on bad lunches being served by outside vendors to schoolkids. The videos of the food they showed were disgusting - stuff you would not feed to your pets - guaranteed to give anyone who took a bite of it a long and miserable stay in the bathroom. It seems the regular... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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