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

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Saturday, March 30, 2019

SATURDAY MORNINGS

Routines change. When I was a kid, Saturday mornings meant listening to radio shows like “Let’s Pretend,” while helping mother sort the whites from the colored items, adding water to the wringer washing machine and two galvanized rinse tubs and measuring the White King soap into the washer. Each... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 29, 2019

DREAMING OF SPRING CLEANING

Standing on the balcony overlooking a vast expanse of lawn, now turning emerald green and approaching spring’s first mowing, I noticed a pair of frisky squirrels chasing one another’s tails, each nibbling on the other’s ear, a joyous reminder of a Disney movie. Birds were about, Robins doing their... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

JRNL 201

Prof. Bill Ward was a grizzled former reporter/editor at a major St. Louis newspaper, the most feared and idolized professor of journalism at SIUE in the early 1980s. He had a shock of white hair that rivaled Einstein’s, a chronic nasal condition that meant he punctuated flat out statements and... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

LESSONS

KARMA Maybe 50 years ago I wrote a short story about a sinner who found himself standing in line on judgment day. He was a worthless user, one who’d left chaos in his wake and lived his life just one step ahead of the wreckage he’d created. His punishment was that he had to revisit all the people... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Oldie...

Not Schrodinger’s Frog My mind is a box of frogs: dead ideas that hop to life when the lid is lifted. I can hide the scrambling mess, sit on the lid and pretend tranquil reason lives within. The challenge is keeping my mouth shut. plh 6/9/2012 Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 25, 2019

FAREWELL

MONDAY AT ST. B’S It’s just about 3:30 and the parking lot at St. B’s is jam-packed, as are the auxiliary parking lots. School let out at 2:30, and the Church was set and ready for the visitation and gathering of friends. It is the visitation for Lois and Mike, the couple who were killed in their... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 24, 2019

WRITE YOUR OWN STORY

We had two suggested topics at Thursday's writing session: the first was spring break, if and when there was one when you were in elementary school. Topic #2 was a lead in to a fiction effort. "Looking back on it, Mel realized the whole problem began when Megan brought that cat into the house. If... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 23, 2019

THE WINDOW DEBACLE

Maybe it’s because I’ve caught the mother of all colds, or maybe it’s just the unsettled transitioning weather patterns, but there’s a disturbance in the force. It all came to a head at the writer’s group session on Thursday. A fairly new attendee at the Write Your Own Story group has been... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 22, 2019

GONE... GONE... GONE

I don't know what happened - my computer went into sleep mode and then I couldn't get online at all. In fact all the itty bitty icons at the bottom of my task bar went out to lunch. I had to be at The Center for the Thursday writing group, and there were other fish to fry that afternoon, so I was... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

SUBJECT FOR DATELINE?

I’m a fan of “Dateline,” the NBC true crime series where a real murder is reported, interviews with police, family & friends, prosecutors, defense attorneys, etc. Usually it’s a story from long ago, a cold case that’s been solved at last, or something that was widely publicized that happened in some... Sign in to see full entry.

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