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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

SELF-DRIVING CARS – WHAT IF?

My story writing urge has been sparked this morning by a story on self-driving cars that came on TV last night. It seems General Motors is going to start mass producing them by next year – no steering wheel, no brake pedal; essentially they’ll be mini TV lounges on wheels. Let’s say 90-something Ida... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 15, 2018

ASSUMPTIONS

At SIUe some 40 years or so ago, the administration thought it was time to raise its staff’s cultural awareness. Our school’s majority from small towns and rural areas in Southern Illinois (semi-redneck and pretty much untraveled) rubbed elbows with city kids from Chicago’s south side, students from... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 14, 2018

SENIOR IMAGE TEAM - SIT

Retirees, grandparents, well-seasoned, or just plain old farts: here are the rules to join the Senior Image Team - aka SIT 1) In the checkout line: Pay for your purchase with exact change = 1 point. 2) If you hold up the line while doing so = 5 points. Accumulate 500 points and you are entitled to... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 13, 2018

THIRD TRY

I wrote a blog this a.m. about names; like Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin and Benedict Arnold that carry a weight an definition in themselves. Then I zapped that one as boring and maybe trite, and because I was tempted to include the name Trump and the weight it contains these days. B O R I N G!... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 12, 2018

WAIT JUST A DARN MINUTE, WILL YA?

This weekend is MLK weekend. I remember seeing a giant billboard featuring the honorable Martin Luther King, Jr. as I drove from Beacon Hill to Interstate 5 one January morning in 1999. I’d just gotten the call that my mother had passed after a long struggle with dementia (possibly Alzheimer’s). I... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 11, 2018

COINCIDENCEs

Several months ago I was at Target when I happened to bump into a young woman who’d been my son’s high school sweetheart. She’d broken up with him at some point not long after graduation. It happened to be a time when my own marriage was dissolving. Rich and his older brother soon left for Dallas,... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

SLOPPY SEASON

It seems there’s no end to the devilment nature can devise to prove the big-brained species (humans) ain’t all that wise, As fire and fury fall about their ears Some hunker in place, the silly dears. Even small folk from forest and glen realize they must go, they quickly ken the need to flee has... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

THE TREE HOUSE CONUNDRUM

Someone in Florida, several years ago, built a magnificent tree house on their property. There were no zoning rules against it at the time, and later on, when the local powers-that-be did legislate against such structures, the owners contended that their tree house pre-dated the law and was thus... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 8, 2018

SITTIN’ ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY…. WASTIN’ TIME

It was 50 years ago when the Otis Redding hit, “Sittin’ on the dock of the bay” was released. It’s a song people can relate to, anybody who’s ever put all their eggs in the basket but haven’t seen the payoff they’d hoped for, or people dealing with stress who just need a break. Just being on the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 7, 2018

WHAT ABOUT POT?

A couple weeks ago at The Center I had a conversation with Milton’s daughter Angie, who at forty-seven had to give up her job and go on disability because of arthritis and fibromyalgia – a painful combo if ever there was one. She told me her doctor suggested she go to one of those shops they’ve... Sign in to see full entry.

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