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Saturday, February 23, 2019

DON'T TELL MOM, TWO

Email from a writer who’d missed Thursday’s WYOS group that she heard at book club that our guy friend was absent. She wondered if we’d scared him off. Obviously I’m not the only one who found him abrasive. During Thursday’s discussion of things we hid from Mom, Bren wasn’t the only writer who used... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 22, 2019

DON'T TELL MOM

Thursday’s writing session worked. We had a lively discussion ahead of the write and great Q&A during the read. As usual I took contemporaneous notes so I would not forget the details before I got to my computer. I never used the word contemporaneous (or extemporaneous) to refer to note- taking... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Write Your Own Story

Got up at 5:30 this a.m. to type up the handout for today's WYOS session. I'm not feeling the class any longer, the bloom is off the rose, as they say. But as I stood at the east-facing kitchen window, drawing water for the coffee pot, I noticed the garage was awash in moonlight. Thanks to cloud... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

CONNECT ANYWAY

This is my newest little memo to myself: Connect anyway. Touch and be in the moment, hug your friends and kinfolk, listen and wait for their punch lines. Yes, there’s a risk. They could go away again, off to another place, or to that better place we all go in the end. Yes, you can find yourself... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

ILLEGAL, IMMORAL OR FATTENING

Sign of the times, when the Beatles, Elvis and so many others were in their heyday, "Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening." I was a mom in those days, but not so parenty that I couldn't get up on the dance floor on a Saturday night and 'twist again, like I did last summer.' They... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 18, 2019

SEATTLE ON MY MIND

Experiencing a heaping helping of self-pity this morning, thinking “if only” this and that, (especially an end to this cold, dark winter) would make it all hunky-dory. It’s Monday, a holiday, the streets are clear, no snow in today’s forecast, but I can't work up the gumption to get out and do...... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 17, 2019

NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD

In the 60s and 70s we lived in a historic neighborhood known as Leclaire. It had been established – the streets laid out, the sewer systems, electric service, etc. – in an area that had previously been orchards and farms adjacent to a factory known as the Wagner complex. Along about the 1890s they... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

THURSDAY AT THE CENTER

This week’s class went a little better than last week’s Write Your Own Story group. But it wasn’t much fun, either. The previous session had been totally disorganized and contentious. For one thing the Center’s printer was down, so I didn’t have handouts and had to read the page to them. The new guy... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 15, 2019

THE TOILET PAPER CONUNDRUM

We moved to a “southern” town in Illinois after my mother-in-law’s son was discharged from the army in early 1955. We’d been married about a year when we got to “Bountiful.” Within a few weeks or so with the aid of his folks, we put a down payment on a little house on Logan Street, just a block and... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 14, 2019

JUST JOKIN’

My kids, like most, enjoy jokes and pranks, a trait they picked up from their dad. When Rusty & Rich were eight or nine there were bikes to maintain at times, spokes to tighten, tires to be replaced, mud to be hosed off. Naturally their dad told them about a prank he’d pulled as a kid. It seems... Sign in to see full entry.

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