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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

FYI

SCAM-WATCH AREA CODES 242 – Bahamas 246 – Barbados 268 – Antigua 284 – British Virgin Islands 345 – Cayman Islands 441 – Bermuda 473 – Grenada 649 – Turkes 664 – Montserrat 721 – St. Maarten 758 – St. Lucia 784 – St. Vincent & Grenadines 809, 829, 849 – Dominican Republic 868 – Trinidad 869 – St.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 25, 2017

SIGNING THE YEARBOOK

I recently saw a story online about kids signing yearbooks at the end of the school year – around graduation rehearsals or some other event. All the prophetic things we say at such times, like “see you next year” or “have a great summer” take on a bit of ironic flavor a decade later as you look back... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 24, 2017

YOU IDIOM!

We use ‘em all the time – idioms, that is. According to the Oxford dictionary that lives on the shelf near my printer, an idiom is a group of words that has a different meaning from the words themselves. “Over the moon” doesn’t literally translate to what the cow did in the nursery rhyme. It means... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT?

“The times, they are a-changin’,” As Bob Dylan used to sing. His lyric just seems to fit the theme of today’s pondering. Yesterday a woman named Mary came into The Center to drop off a donation – books and puzzles left over from her yard sale. She didn’t recognize me, and I didn’t make a point of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Eclipse Report

No total darkness here in Quiet Town, but the street lights came on, cicadas started singing, bunny rabbit came out from under the deck, and the most amazing thing - the maple leaves formed crescent shadows on my sidewalk, a crescent that moved as the moon did. Wow. A friend told me those crescents... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 21, 2017

ECLIPSE

Maybe it’s just me, but this past month has been ironic on so many levels. Up close and personal, I shut down the Thursday Write Your Own Story sessions because I was so tired of trying to come up with something interesting, new and in tune with our goal autobiographic writing. And I miss them like... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Pondering the existential

It seems we’re all so flawed and crazy, so changeable – we’re clouds on a breezy day, looking first like one thing, and then like another, drifting every which way or bumping into a sudden chill and dropping in formless liquidity through the thin air until we find the thick, the rock-solid, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 18, 2017

This 'n That in "Quiet Town"

Finally went over to pay a condolence call on my neighbor yesterday. Watched for one of their relatives to park in the driveway so I'd know they weren't trying to catch 40 winks... Their son from California was there, driving his sister's vehicle - It's the red jeep that had been a frequent visitor.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 17, 2017

Sorry, Blogit Friends

Thanks to the after-Charlotesville, VA events in NYC and Washington DC, I don't have the oomph to focus on something light or interesting. I've retreated to my La-Z-Boy and bought a couple big fat skeins of yarn. I'll be counting stitches and biding time. I did buy a pair of those pressure socks and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Petty Theft, and other petty things

Got up cranky and late after a long night of little sleep and a sense there’s a disturbance in the force. Told myself I’d feel better once I got to The Center. The three pot-stirrers were gathered at their table, heads together over Pinochle, whispering behind their hands as others walked past them.... Sign in to see full entry.

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