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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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Friday, July 2, 2021

ANNIVERSARY '61 - ON GETTIN' ER DONE

It's a perfect day for a getaway, clear and sunny and mild. Let's lighten our load on the Great River Road and forget about stuff for a while. Or maybe a latte at Sacred Grounds that coffee shop up there on Main to share an old story of yesterday's glory and forget about dodging the rain. Let's chat... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 1, 2021

THE AMAZING ADVENTURE OF A GOLDEN GIRL IN TRAINING

MariEllen was in the fourth grade when she became famous at GoodEnough school as a tough girl. There was an incident where she was called to principal’s Jones’ office. Miss Jones was a single lady of a certain age, who’d made the school her mission and the staff and students her family. She was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

COFFEE WITH A GOLDEN GIRL

A friend from the writing group at the Main Street Center had to miss the gathering of the golden girls a couple weeks back because she'd had a silly accident at home and broke the pinkie toe on her right foot - a particularly clumsy and devastating cycle of events that involved an electric cord, a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

THE AMAZING ADVENTURE

Lake Woebegon is about 4.7 inches from St. Olaf on the map of Wishconsota, the northern- most state below the U.S. Canadian border. St. Olaf is the ancestral home of Miss Rose Farland, now of Sunnibeach, Florida. She left Wishconsota when she turned fifty, sick of the frigid winters and summertime's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 28, 2021

Adventures of Maryellen, a Golden Girl in Training...

She grew up in a farmhouse about halfway between Lake Woebegon and St. Olaf, and attended the GoodEnough community highschool. Her big brother Teddy B. played on the varsity curling team. For a time she dated Monty, who was goalie for the GoodEnough Geoduks*, but she saw him kissing "Sleazy" Silvie... Sign in to see full entry.

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CARTOONS ON THE FUTURE, OR PREDICTIONS OF THINGS TO COME?

On a newscast a couple days ago, the news photographer caught a guy on a hover craft flying above the street in New York City. Dressed all in black and balancing with all the confidence of a high-wire circus performer, he sailed above pedestrians and vehicles, just like one of the Jetsons, surfing.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 27, 2021

WEATHER & ETC.

Just got an email from my sis in Oregon responding to my query about how she's doing in that hellish heat - she and my bro are both living in the Salem area, and they do have air conditioning, so they are able to handle the extreme heat. She tells me the humidity is up to the 40s & 50s so it's... Sign in to see full entry.

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