Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Saturday, August 31, 2019

TO THE BROADCAST PRODUCER

NO POLITICS, PLEASE. Sorry, ma’am, it’s all politics, all the time. BUT I’M SO SICK OF THE SPITEFUL PETTINESS… Time for you to adjust to the new reality. Drama for the camera’s where it’s at. YOU’RE SELLING ANTI-ANXIETY DRUGS. IS THAT WHY YOUR STUFF IS SO STRESSFUL? No comment. Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 30, 2019

THURSDAY AT THE CENTER

Our Write Your Own Story group topic was “best school friend” either from elementary or high school. The fiction lead-in was an invitation to tell a Halloween-type story: Your car has broken down on a country road. You and your companion see a house set back from the road. There’s a light inside.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

BITS AND BLURBS

FOLLOW UP – LTR TO THE EDITOR A week or so ago I wrote here about one of the guys at The Center who’d asked me to send a letter to the editor for him using a fake name in order to circumvent his wife/censor who doesn’t want him rattling cages in print. I told him he’d have to use his own name. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

CARS, NEIGHBORS'

Redd Truck, Pearly Gray, Vanna White and The Jeepster are names I’ve given to vehicles in the lot next to the apartment complex across the alley. Redd is frequently gone for a few days at a time. I’m surmising he’s an over-the-road trucker. He’s got that pot-belly build and walks like he may not be... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

RANDOM MONDAY STUFF

The bad, the good and the not so ugly: I knew three of the seven people listed in Saturday’s Obits from the Daily Blah. Audrey A. had been my neighbor for 20-odd years, her kids and my kids had grown up together… Good woman. Harvey B. used to work in the same small dept. with me at SIUe, back in the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 26, 2019

CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE CREEPY KIND

As I was coming back into the house after taking the day’s trash bag out to my little dumpster tub, I reached for the doorknob. As fingers closed loosely around the knob I felt something fuzzy, and it moved! I let go. I looked. There was a fuzzy brown spider, pulling in its legs and apparently... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 25, 2019

MOLLY IVINS ON CANCER THERAPY AND GUN CONTROL

Mary Tyler " Molly " Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator and humorist. Born in California and raised in Texas. Ivins used irony and satirical humor to make a very serious point. Wikipedia has an extensive bio of this writer,... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 24, 2019

ON A LIGHTER NOTE:

SUMMER FRUIT Mama bear has first claim on blackberries ripened wild in Salkum valley. We maintain a safe distance, laughing at the antics of her cubs. Our mother’s jelly making may wait a day. Sign in to see full entry.

Opinion piece

I am compelled to say this, because the situation is becoming hazardous: DJT talks the talk. Doesn’t walk the walk. And now his sycophant senators bow and scrape to his very shadow. They bend their so-called principles, they sell out their constituents to the almighty dollar, the gun lobby, the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 23, 2019

TALKING TO MYSELF... OR AM I?

In 1950 we lived in Salkum. If you were to look for that small town on today’s Google map, you’d see that it’s still about the same size now that it was then, approximately 80 families lived there. In those days, while folks in big cities like Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia had TV stations, the signals... Sign in to see full entry.

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