Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Saturday, May 30, 2015

John's school project.

I decided to take a peek. Turns out I'd seen this project in 1983 when he created it. He did all the typing, pretty good job of it, too. It's titled "The Shedding of the Leaves from the Poet Tree." His illustration on the front cover was a tree that filled the page, a kid raking leaves at the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Finding a Sub

In light of my recent health issues, and a suspicion that things will get worse before they get better, I began to think I need to recruit a sub from among the writers at The Center. My first thought was Lois. She seems no-nonsense, straight-laced, and much of what she shares with us in focused and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Loving, Beautiful Packrat Teachers...

Sharon M. taught 8th Grade when my son John was a student at Mundane Middle School. He was a creative child, artistic in several ways - he could draw, liked to do fancy lettering and posters, he played cornet in the junior high band, and he wrote poems and stories. He took to schoolwork like a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Wednesday. Wow!

I'm so bored with myself I could run screaming out into traffic. Except there's no traffic now that St. B's school is out for the summer. No parade of mamas and papas in their SUVs, dropping little Mary and Johnny at 7:30 so they'll be in time for 8: a.m. mass. No hurry-up moms leading their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Good News

Just got an email from my sis that brother John's condition is much improved, the pain in his hands they suspected was metastasis from his prostate cancer was actually related to the stomach infection, which is getting better. The prostate thing is non-threatening as it is so slow-growing they're... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 24, 2015

The Party's Over...

Ninety percent of the party setup at St. B's has been cleared away. There was no 4:00 mass yesterday, because the festival was in full swing. Weather was perfect, pushing 80 degrees and sunny. Moms and dads with their little ones in tow were up and down my street from sunrise on. First there was the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 23, 2015

St. B's Festival is On!

Thursday they downloaded the porta-potties. Even before school let out for the summer at 2:30, the flatbed crew was unloading the necessary facilities in a neat row along the exit driveway. Parents queueing up to collect their newly-liberated offspring were obliged to be even more polite and patient... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 22, 2015

Story Hour: Thursday at The Center

I wasn't sure how the others would like the idea of writing as an exercise instead of as a step in their memoir, but they were game. I added the disclaimer than nobody had to do the exercise, that as always they're welcome to write their own story. I took a selfish minute to describe my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Today's Writing Prompt

I've been thinking ahead all week to the Write Your Own Story session at The Center today. Instead of picking some topic from the workbook, like describe one day at school when you were a kid, or tell a story your grandmother told you about when she was a child - I think I'm going to suggest a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

It never rains, but it pours…

It seems to me the stuff that happens in a life come in clusters. We sail along for weeks and months with nothing much happening, and then wham! It all hits the fan at once. For the past few months I’ve been maintaining, maybe even improving here and there, health-wise. The family’s been going along... Sign in to see full entry.

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