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Friday, January 8, 2021

VACCINE ROLLOUT CONTINUES

It's not as fast as we'd hoped, but access to immunity from Covid19 is filtering down slowly from the first rank - medical front line workers, firemen, EMT's, etc. Soon the essential workers who have to be there for us every day will be protected, and then older folks. I think around here they've... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 7, 2021

OMG!

I remember Pearl Harbor every Dec 7. I always feel that chill of fear again on 9-11. I know where I was when the word came that President Kennedy had been assassinated. And now another day of infamy. I may always remember January 6 as the day the president incited an attack on our Capitol building... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

A SORROW SHARED

Monday afternoon my son Russell called me after he saw a comment I'd made on a Facebook post, to see if I were OK. You know how it is on these dark winter days, the political fractioning and snarking get to you. Being stuck indoors and in solitary wear on the mood. Maybe, if you're like me, you get... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

YARNS

The little coffee shop on North Main Street had been a refuge for Linda while she was a grad student. Sacred Grounds offered free Wi-Fi and a welcome to students plinking away on laptops. She wrote the greater half of her papers there, slipping out of the word processor to fact check or get good... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 4, 2021

NAMING YOUR PUP - (OR THE TITLE FOR YOUR STORY)

Naming your adorable chocolate labrador puppy is going to establish who she is for what you hope is a long and healthy life. That bouncy little trouble maker will grow up to be a protective companion. But she has to recognize that name from early on, and will eventually come to be the real reference... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 3, 2021

THE VENT

OKAY, I deleted a post about Fred. I wasn't really thinking about Fred, the guy who proposed to me on April First. I'd known him 2 months, met him at a cousin's wedding. He was the groom's brother. Perhaps it was the romance of the occasion, maybe he'd just had a drop too many, but he took a shine... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 2, 2021

A FOGGY DAY IN THIS OLD TOWN

A film-maker would love to get the mood of this pre-dawn morning "in the can." It's so soft-focus and mysterious. It seems to have warmed up a degree or two overnight, and the frozen rain and sleet seems to have evaporated a bit, leaving just the right spooky (or romantic) mist around the street... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 1, 2021

ICE STORMS

We had snows in winter back in Salkum. The village was in the foothills of the Cascade mountains, about halfway between Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens. The two-lane paved road that went through town was Route 12, the highway that took travelers east-west through White Pass. Snoqualmie pass to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 31, 2020

MIAMI REAL ESTATE NEWS

I understand The Donald didn't like the way his Mrs. redecorated his bedroom at Mara Lago and ripped out all the expensive, tasteful decor she had put in to surprise himself. The clue I latched onto from this story was " his bedroom." Apparently there's only one pillow on that California King sized... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

DECEMBER 30, 1954: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

I turned 19 in September. I'd worked for the phone company for a year, my high school sweetheart had broken our engagement before he shipped off to Korea 18 months earlier. It was on his mother's advice, he said. She thought we were too young to make such a commitment and we both needed to explore... Sign in to see full entry.

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