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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Greetings Conundrum

For decades I’ve been insuring house and car through State Farm, and most of the time the company Rep has been Steve Whatshisname. Steve was mayor of staid and steady Mundane at one point in the late ‘60s, a position which in this town is part-time. He ran his insurance office on Hwy 159 and managed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 18, 2015

About Guardian Angels

When I was a little kid in the 1940s, Grandma Lucy told us stories about Guardian Angels who watch over children, and in fact everybody. She had posters on her wall in the living room showing a little boy with a fishing pole, his bare feet dangling off the creek bank into the water, perched... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

About Memes, Sharing and Recycled Clips

My FB Excerpt: December 4 at 1:21pm Pardon me for not commenting on your regurgitated ads, recycled memes, political comments. I only come to Facebook for updates on how friends & family are doing, and most of them have dropped out because people on FB are wasting too much time on regurgitated ads,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

The Sixties Chicks - Back by Popular Demand

We had a holiday event at The Center yesterday. For one thing Mom’s Catering cooked the meal, and as always the joint was jammed with regulars and occasionals who knew the food would be tasty and there would be old friends on hand. But the big reason for the standing-room-only crowd was another... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 14, 2015

TIMING

At sixteen you count your years: with neither glimmer nor hint of how soon they’ll take you from invincibility to decrepitude. You see an old man’s shuffling steps as lack of the will to stride, never guessing he was you it seemed only a week ago. You force a temporary gate through a barbed-wire... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Holding Space: a new technique for helping people

I found this link on FB earlier this morning, just when I really needed it. I could not possibly say it better than Heather Plett - so I've enclosed the link for anyone who might be interested. "What does it mean to hold space for someone else? It means that we are willing to walk alongside another... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Keep Looking... Sooner or later the right one will turn up

I read this article in the September Writer's Digest about a publisher called Leapfrog Press. They had a writing contest coming up, were seeking submissions. I probably didn't see the September issue until early November. But I liked the article and the kinds of stuff they publish. So I put the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 11, 2015

Just Desserts

The convicted felon wept – bawled – as the 17 guilty counts were read by the judge, as he realized he was going to spend the rest of his life in the company of his kind: predators. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The teenager's mother clapped her hands and screamed with joy as she watched an Oklahoma City jury... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

My To Do List --

Send query letter to at least one publisher or agent. Get Christmas Cards ready & mail them. Sort out the federal tax-related paperwork for 2015, file bank statements, and purge old documents. Go through magazines, recycle all that are more than 2 years old. Ditto the bookshelves. Donate unneeded... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

About the Bahamas...

I talked with Mary at The Center yesterday - thanked her again for the giant shopping bag full of yarn. I mentioned the 1982 sales slip that had been at the bottom, so faded it was nearly unreadable. No, she says, I wasn't there in '82. In fact, at that time I was still with my first husband. He... Sign in to see full entry.

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