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Sunday, February 26, 2017

FUNDRAISER FOR THE CENTER

Every February The Main Street Center holds a trivia night fund raiser to raise money to support our van. This is a 12-passenger handicapped-equipped bus used to pick up elderly or disabled folks for trips to their doctors, beauty shop, grocery store, the bank, etc. Of course the van picks up bingo... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 25, 2017

SATURDAY: DAY 10 OF THE 8-DAY COLD

Yesterday I started the steroid prescription the lovely Cassandra prescribed for me. Last night I coughed and hacked until the wee hours, (although there was wee in all the hours). In spite of my sandwich-sized pee pads, went through every pair of undies I own. Little sleep last night. Up with the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 24, 2017

Unintended Consequences

I’ve got a morbid fear of antibiotics. Perhaps it’s irrational. But once the news came out there’s a link between the new viral superbugs and meat producers’ use of antibiotics to fatten beef and chicken, I’ve been even moreso. But after nine days of hacking and not sleeping and having zero... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

We know the one who originated the saying lived in the days of analog clocks, the ones with faces and the numbers 1-12, 60 minutes to the hour, 60 seconds to the minute, tick-tock. Because the digital ones, if they stop, are only right once a day. My former DIL, who’s been teaching high school... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

It ain’t what you say, it’s the way you say it.

You say “what about what happened in Sweden last night,” in an election rally for the 2020 campaign, “oh, the horror… those refugees…” What you actually said was nothing. But since you’re supposedly the best-informed individual in the free world, with diplomats and underlings and agents, oh my, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 20, 2017

Writing Gets Me Through

The habit of it, the ritual of setting up to do it are the cornerstones of my day. Before I watch the local news or check email or Facebook I think with my fingers about what happened yesterday... Kinda feels like I’ve been run over by a truck. Pulled a gut muscle coughing in the middle of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 19, 2017

Feeling Better?

I don’t believe I’ve had a cold like this one for ten or fifteen years. Not since I got a pneumonia shot, which was when I lived in Seattle and worked at the community college. That would have been 2002 or 2003. I’ve had bouts with sniffles, the occasional dry scratchy throat. Son Rich called... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Cold. (The illness, not the temperature)

I was feeling it on Tues., that little dryness in the throat, a flowing rivulet from eyes and nose. By Thur. my voice was a raspy croak. I went by the grocery store and picked up some orange juice, a box of cough drops and Kleenex, which as it turned out, barely got me through the day. After the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Stories from The Center

Today was the first “class session” of the new term – 15 weeks, which makes it one down and 14 to go. There were six of us, and I was feeling much the worse for wear – sore throat, raspy voice and that ennui that goes with the uncommon misery of the common cold. I managed to croak out the blurb... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The New Manchurian Candidate

Seems one sneakin’ hunch filtering through network news these days is that Russian Premier Putin messed with the USA’s presidential election, spreading fake stories, twisting voters to reject Mrs. Clinton, the most experienced and qualified candidate in favor of a TV clown whose talent lay in... Sign in to see full entry.

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