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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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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The Cleaning Lady - Part 4

Alice had turned on the local news and let the TV play in the living room while she puttered around the kitchen, steaming some frozen veggies to go with a slice of leftover meat loaf, making a half pot of decaf. There was just one more serving of ice cream in the carton for dessert. It was the Carb... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The Cleaning Lady - Part 3

The next day at the food bank, Alice was busy with two other volunteers, loading donations from one of the regular food stores, unsold items that had to be removed as new ones came in. The food was still edible, but shoppers at the upscale stores tended to skip over those that were about to reach... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 29, 2015

The Cleaning Lady - cont'd

After thinking it over, Alice decided a letter wouldn’t do. Too easy to drop it in the file box and ignore a complaint from an old lady. She couldn’t help thinking about how grannies become “invisible” to the younger generations, their hard-earned wisdom discounted. Better to show up in person. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 26, 2015

The Cleaning Lady

At 73, Alice’s feet hurt. Her right ankle felt like she’d twisted it - if she set her weight on it just wrong, a sharp twinge of pain shot up through her ankle. She’d taken to stepping flat, setting the foot down with the toes pointing outward. She stood on her left leg to take the weight off that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Sick of the ever-increasing violence, intolerance, corruption?

Well here's an idea that brought me a smile this a.m. THE CLEANING LADY: Idea for a new urban legend story. It seems this kindly old church-going granny is sick and tired of the rampant violence, the gang bangers, the violent domestic terrorists, the crooked cops. Her neighborhood is going to hell... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

About Gluten Intolerance and Gut Feelings

Scientists are discovering there's a relationship between mental processing and brain performance and the type of bacteria in the gut. With mice, they found transplanting bacteria from a happy, energetic mouse to one that seems lethargic and bummed out made the morose fellow more gregarious and... Sign in to see full entry.

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