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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Grandma's House

My maternal grandma Lucy Amanda, from my earliest memory of her, was a roly-poly little five by five. She wore her white hair pulled back in a bun, favored blue dresses and took off her apron only when she went to Sabbath day services at the Seventh Day Adventist Church - or on the rare occasion... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 10, 2015

Today's Blog

Yesterday at the Write Your Own Story group, I broached the idea of maybe starting up a fiction-writing class at some future time. I explained that I wanted to talk with Sara, the Center's director, to see if they'd be interested in sponsoring it - perhaps something that would be published in some... Sign in to see full entry.

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Yesterday's Blog...

Gripes about the weather. Complaints about the politicians here in beautiful Illinos, their failure to make a budget. Wonderment at the blind confidence Donald Trump has in his own political ambitions. An opinion shared with a Facebook Friend that the USA has become an oligarchy, all royals and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Books for Sale

The E-ville Library Friends (ELFs) are staging their annual book sale at tomorrow night's band concert in City Park. The municipal band performs concerts at the bandstand each Thursday night - it's a hallmark of summer in "Mundane." Various groups sell cookies or soda pop, bottled water and other... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Nursery Rhymes - they keep teaching into old age

"There was a little girl, and she had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very very good but when she was bad she was horrid." This one wasn't in "Mother Goose." Mama used to quote it to me, for some subtle reason of her own. Well, maybe it was in the book.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 6, 2015

Waste Not, Want Not

I've tried new tricks with celery. First of all, I admit it's not that stringy vegetable that's changed. What's different is my ability to chew it. Ever since Mad Maxillary replaced those molars and the front four lower teeth with partials, the chew hasn't worked as well. The crisp celery I used to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Like a Melody

“A pretty girl is like a melody that haunts you night and day. She’ll leave you and then come back again, a pretty girl is just like a lovely song.” I don’t remember how she died. What I remember is the funeral, held in the school auditorium on a sunny day. It may have been a Saturday, or it may... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Writing our own story at The Center

We weren't too sure at the beginning whether anyone would go for the manual - the loose-leaf compilation of writing prompts from the past couple years, a list of resources for finding information (family albums, Bibles, etc., Ancestry.Com, and the public library.) Initially I ran off a dozen copies,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 3, 2015

Conversation in a waiting room

An older white woman came in a few minutes after Jedidiah Carpenter took the corner seat in the waiting room at LabCorp. It was Monday, the testing center had been open for half an hour. All the chairs but one were occupied: six people waiting to be called to the inner sanctum. Jed had been the last... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

The Cleaning Lady - conclusion

Alice saw Devon in the group, but he wouldn’t meet her eyes. In fact, when he recognized her he turned and went inside the little store. That was it. She couldn’t harm this boy. She turned back the way she’d come, moving quickly. Her bad ankle hurt, and she limped. Suddenly the gang members were all... Sign in to see full entry.

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