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Monday, October 7, 2019

RESPONSE TO A BULLY

The Write Your Own Story group at The Center operates along female organizational principles. We’re all contributing members of a collaborative. A couple months ago we had a newbie, Paul. He walked in – I should say he strutted in – carrying a notebook and a newspaper. He took a place at the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 6, 2019

THE SUPERMARKET

The Schnucks supermarket in Mundane has operated in the same location in a popular local mall for some time – maybe twenty years. A couple months ago they began an upgrade, a rehab to be completed while remaining open. The aisles are being re-aligned. The lights in the high ceiling have been... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 5, 2019

HARD TIMES

A LONG WAY TO GO FOR A FRIED EGG SANDWICH It might have been 1942 or 1943, we had moved into the house at “The Y” – a junction east of Kennewick, WA where the highway branched south towards Pasco and the Oregon border and east toward Richland and Hanford, site of the WWII nuclear research facility... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 4, 2019

FIRST DAY AT THE CENTER

On my first Tuesday morning as a front desk volunteer at the Main Street Community Center, I met a lot of heroes. Not only military veterans, but everyday heroes fighting arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and other serious conditions. Of course our common enemies were (are) loneliness and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 3, 2019

CAN YOU JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER?

ONE WORD There’s a program coming up at the Manny Jackson Center on Friday. It is put on by SIUE and Lewis & Clark Community College instructors and brings juniors & seniors from five different high schools throughout Madison County into a kind of get-acquainted situation. The ones they’re getting... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

MUSIC OF OUR LIVES

"STARDUST" In the early 1950s the tune “Stardust” was often played on the radio. It was crooned by such vocalists as Frank Sinatra, played on regular live music broadcasts. It was a standard, recorded as both vocal and instrumental, and often on the play list at the Saturday night dances at the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

FROM THE SORTING BOX:

THE OLD ONE I watch the old one rocking in her porchbound wooden chair and ask myself just who is she, that old one rocking there. Is her life’s work really finished as she dozes in the sun or is she one of those who thinks she’s only just begun? Does she dream of days long gone, or of future’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 30, 2019

TEACHERS CREATE THE WORLD - AND THEY'RE UNDERPAID

I have a friend named Lisa, 40-something, big smile, the kind of woman who makes you feel safe and welcome in her presence. She’s African American and teaches (6th grade?) at a school in East St. Louis, IL. It is one of those urban districts where poverty and all the tragic outcomes that are rooted... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 29, 2019

WHAT THE AVON LADY SAID

Some people these days wear extreme makeup – and not all of them are celebrities or performers strutting across a stage setting. Some even do a never-ending job of it with tattoos, but that’s a whole ‘nother topic. It’s quite a feature of a girl’s growing up to dress up in her mama’s outfits and try... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 28, 2019

from "Waking Late" a collection by PLH

Six seventeen a.m., and there's no moon no cloud, no hint of sunrise soon just the mournful whisper of a train west of here, swimming north in the rain no choice for early wakened folks like me but to wait for what the day will be so far so good my mom would say no one's screwed up this perfect day... Sign in to see full entry.

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