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Sunday, May 19, 2019

More of the story later. For now, some filthy politics

I resigned from a conservative church some 49 years ago when it became apparent to me the members were inherently bigoted. There were no persons of color in the congregation, none dropped in on occasion. Racist jokes were shared at routine Bible Study classes. There was not a hair's-breadth margin... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 18, 2019

In Lieu of Politics, Boring Health Issues, and The Weather

I've decided to post some revisions from my novel "Waltzing With Zombies," a spy thriller in which 'average' citizens get involved in a counter-intelligence operation. My characters include a couple of journalism students, a super brainy computer nerd/gamer and a couple others that I can't tell you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 17, 2019

WHAT MAMA SAID

There were times when Mama got especially discouraged by the daily battle for survival. Her back hurt and she was stiff from the hard work of digging, planting, weeding. There was never quite enough money to stretch from one payday to the next, or time enough to catch up with the mending, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 16, 2019

A CONVERSATION ABOUT "MIRACLES"

My in-laws were around 70 years old when we all got into this conversation at some gathering. R and I were the parents of four kids ranging in age between a few months and 10 years old. Gma Cora was a southern woman with all the sweet courtesies and manners that southerners have. She baby-sat our... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

JOKES OTJ

I was reading the obits yesterday – the old joke being that if I didn’t see my name there, I’d get on with my day. I saw a familiar name from so many years ago. Bruce. My old work buddy. He’d had a good life, left a number of grandkids. I hadn’t seen or heard of him in a good 20 years. I got to know... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

OR NOT

IT AIN'T GONNA RAIN NO MORE, NO MORE IT AIN'T GONNA RAIN NO MORE HOW IN THE HECK CAN I WASH MY NECK IF IT AIN'T GONNA RAIN NO MORE? Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 12, 2019

JUST A LITTLE MOTHER’S DAY SASS

We were getting ready to go somewhere, coats on, doing the last minute check for keys, making sure everything was shut off, stepping toward the front door, when my 4-year-old asked me a question. I don’t remember now what the question was. What I do remember is that she prefaced it with my name,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 11, 2019

FLASHBACK

1953 AND THE ‘60S I graduated from MHS on May 29, 1953, ranked 9th in my class with a GPA of 3.8. There were 22 graduates marching that day in black robes and mortarboards, eleven girls and eleven boys. Our class motto was “Not as large as the largest, but as strong as the strongest.” Kind of a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 10, 2019

LOVE FROM THE CENTER

THURSDAY'S WRITING GROUP Well, despite the ill-fitting ‘practice’ dentures and a tendency to drool while talking, I put together a couple topic ideas and took myself up to the Main Street center for Thursday’s Write Your Own Story circle. The topics these days – since we’ve been doing this as a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 9, 2019

HOW MANY ANGELS CAN DANCE ON THE POINT OF A NEEDLE?

THE NOT-SO-GREAT DEBATE Years – decades – ago I was reading something about scholarship as it was in the Middle Ages – a time when education was only for the sons of royalty and those in the clergy. Priests and scribes were the only ones who could read or write. For Average Jane, the very fact that... Sign in to see full entry.

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