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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

SCENE FROM A SHOPPING CENTER

You see it every day, so commonplace you may not notice, but then there’s one telling photo on your news screen. It’s a couple, late middle age, crossing from the parking area to the front door of a Kmart. He’s about three steps ahead walking in that let’s-get-this-over-with impatient stride. She’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 22, 2018

CELEBRATE YOURSELF

ODE TO A WINDOW SCREEN I am amazed, Ms. Spider sings, at your perfect symmetry, the manufactured geometricity of those fitted, finite squares. Although unfazed, if truth be told, for I have synchronicity; I can spin ad hoc specificity into quite capable snares. Plh 10-21-2018 Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 21, 2018

THURSDAY AT THE CENTER

I was tempted to use Halloween as topic one for the writing session, but decided to save that one for another week. Abdel had told me on Tuesday that he was going to Harvard, all expenses paid the week before Halloween, and from there he’d be heading to New Hampshire to visit family – he would be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 20, 2018

MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

I saw something posted on Blogit yesterday that struck me as more virulent and unnecessary than the usual nasty bits - a meme attacking former Pres. Obama and the Democrat party. It shocked me a bit later in the day when I saw that same nasty meme as part of a breaking news item about a Russian... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 18, 2018

TEMPUS FUGIT

Before we begin - a thing I wrote years ago for a poetry class: Any sunny day the raven's shadow flits across the uncarved tombstone. * * * Mom used to say ‘tempus fugit’ any time she wanted to hurry us up because we had to be somewhere and weren’t getting ready fast enough. Or if she’d been reading... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Chapter 1 - (time out to think it over)

Here's the thing. This next page or so of the Pat_B story is a #metoo episode, and I'm having a bit of trouble getting myself to actually post it here. Before I started to write my own story so my kids could read it some time in the future, I had never actually written it down, even though I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Chapter 1, cont’d

We got up early on the farm – even in the dark of winter, we were up and out the door in our rubber boots and coats before 5:00 a.m., feeding the hens, milking the cows and tending to the related chores. It got so I was Uncle Sam’s best buddy. He took to explaining stuff to me as we worked around... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 15, 2018

Idioms & Sayings

Abdel from the Write Your Own Story group at The Center read my novel "Bloody Hell and a Slice of Pie," and later made the comment that I used a lot of idioms in my book. Most of us would never have noticed, but one whose formal education in a French school system would probably have been taught UK... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Excerpt: (Untitled First Draft)

Chap ter 1: When you’re 13 years old, you begin to weigh factors in your life and make decisions about what you’d do if you were in charge. At the same time you realize the one in charge is absolutely not going to see things your way. Even more frustrating & scary is the realization the adult in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 13, 2018

KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID

Dreamed last night about a party house, big old farmhouse on a rural road, porch all around complete with rocking chairs and folks standing around with drinks in hand, every window in the house lit up like a giant decorated cake. I was being dropped off in a chauffeured limo. It was the hour just... Sign in to see full entry.

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