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Saturday, November 5, 2016

In the Land of Hoyle, -- conclusion

Well, as people do who’ve lived with unfairness and denial of their hopes and ambitions, the queens from both communities had quite a lot to say about the inequities. They used their feminine wiles to convince their mates that it would make everyone happier if they all had equal opportunity. “How... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 4, 2016

In the land of Hoyle

In the nation of Hoyle there are long-established social strata, a divide between those who practice one way of being, and those who practice another. Depending upon who’s in power, the “black” thinkers or the “red” believers, the everyday lives of the majority of people will be very different.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Déjà vu All Over Again

For the past couple of days I’ve had one of those tuneful earworms that keeps playing any time my monkey brain slows down for ten seconds. It’s the theme- song from the TV show “WKRP in Cincinnati” that ran from 1978-1982… “I get mighty tired of packing and unpacking moving around, up and down the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

The Series

By late October, unless our boys of summer have made it to the World Series, baseball is out of sight and out of mind for most of us. In this neck of the woods we root for the St. Louis Cardinals, who have put several championships under their belts, with many players’ names as familiar to us as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

“Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

Young girls picked them, every one…” We need some quiet days, calm, pleasant, mildly boring: days when that knock on the door is a missionary parroting his version of the way, the truth and the light, and not that most dreaded of all uninvited callers, a political candidate. Let’s get back to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 31, 2016

About the outlaws and inlaws

The elderly ex-con in my last post said he'd mended all the fences. I don't believe it. At the funeral his daughters and other relatives stood apart from him as he stepped to the front of the line to be first to greet people. He's been deceptive for as long as I've known him - a Narcissist of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Inlaws and Outlaws

Joe was 19 when he married Dawn who was barely 17. He was madly in love as only young men can be and determined to take responsibility for the child they’d created. Dawn’s mother went with the couple to sign the marriage license; her father Bill was doing 3-5 at the time, in prison for his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Reality TV

Last night MSNBC ran a feature story on the 2000 election, the contest that was a photo-finish, with Gore, then Bush declared a winner by the network when it all came down to what happened in Florida. It was the first time I remember when all the drama, the conflict and resolution, the political... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 29, 2016

It's not you, it's me: (from nine million romantic comedies)

He is breaking up with her at some little café and she’s caught totally off guard. After he says he thinks they should see other people she breaks down in tears, and sobs “Why, Rob? Just tell me!” Wait for it. Wait for it… That’s when he says “It’s not you, it’s me.” She takes a long, thoughtful... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 28, 2016

Balance

I took a copy of my book to The Center with me yesterday, passed it around and Sara took my picture holding it, posted it on Facebook. Suddenly in a very limited way, I’m a star. Kids who grew up with mine, friends and co-workers and members of the Writers Without Borders group all saying nice... Sign in to see full entry.

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