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Monday, July 12, 2021

TO PREVAGEN, OR NOT TO PREVAGEN

IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO BOOST YOUR ABILITY TO REMEMBER? There's an old joke that seems to fit my mood today: Q. Why do elephants drink? A. To forget. I had a whole story of life's unfairness and a mother's limited ability to help her son get through a painful situation. Writing it helped me think it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 11, 2021

NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS

Hesitating to turn on the news this morning. If I look out the front door, it's quiet on the street, yesterday's rain is drying on the lawn and the brick street is clear and dry. The playground across the street is waiting to welcome kids on Monday, the parking lot is ready for Sunday morning's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 10, 2021

THIS 'N THAT

What with all the hard news - the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the new strains of Covid that are bringing on a new surge of sickness and death, especially in the hot spots of rural Missouri and Arkansas, there's also a kind of head scratcher that's taking up a lot of media interest this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 9, 2021

THE NOSY NEIGBOR REPORT: 7-9-2021

Catching Up: A weekend ago a crew showed up to put a new roof on the house and garage next door. They worked from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. for two and a half days, stripping off the old roofing, patching some weak places, and installing a nice dark asphalt shingle. As I watched from time to time,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 8, 2021

THE STRUGGLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS:

Dora and Donnie is good country people that live a bit south and west of here. They been listenin' to all that malarky on the tee-vee about how ever'body needs to step up and get vaccinated against the Covid. But his buddy in the militia told Donnie the truth: it's a known fact the government has... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

THIS 'N THAT

The tropical storm/hurricane known as Elsa has come and gone from the Tampa area, near where my daughter lives. Other than losing a limb off her mango tree - and having to rescue half a dozen not quite ripe mangoes and a brief power outage, no troubles - the water didn't rise as they'd worried... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GRANDMA PATCH

Woke up this morning with the idea for writing my obit - it's an exercise recommended for writing groups like the Write Your Own Story program with which I was formerly associated. I was going to start with Grandma Lucy and her first love, Grandpa Bert, who left her a widow with five young children... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 5, 2021

MISS KITZ

7-5-21 Miss Kitz had a rough start in life. She was the unwanted offspring of a working farm cat. Their owner took her as soon as she was weaned and near dusk one December evening, dropped her in a box near the university exit from Route 143. She climbed out of the box, mewing and lost, and was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 4, 2021

ANOTHER THING --

Bumping into Mrs. Luan at the grocery store was also a reminder of how lucky I have been to get to know so many newcomers to this country. We moved to an outback village during the last six weeks of my 6th grade school year - from a bustling and progressive place where all kinds of people lived,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Catching up in Aisle Nine

7-2-21 At the grocery store this morning I bumped into a woman I’d seen many times at the Main Street Center when I was working the front desk as a volunteer. This little Chinese woman seemed familiar to me then, but since she was there for an exercise class and I had a phone to answer, we didn’t... Sign in to see full entry.

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