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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Happy Day!

Thank you so much for your prayers and kind thoughts! Just got off the phone with my older daughter Lori who had the cancer surgery a week ago. Dr. told her today the cancer had been completely contained within the walls of the uterus, there was none in the lymph glands or cervix. Not only did they... Sign in to see full entry.

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Bad headlines...

They're talking war again, some rebel group in some dustbowl has decided to raise hell again, put disaster on the doorstep, interrupt the market, terrify children and get the military-industrial creeps salivating for more. "Hey buddy, I've got this new high-tech weapon that will kill twice as many... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 23, 2014

"Genetic Predisposition"

B. That's what he said? A. Yup. B. What's that mean? A. Fancy way a sayin' I was born that way. Like mama 'n papa before me. B. So you can't help it, then. A. Reckon not. B. I knew it, yuh ornery cuss. Stands to reason you'd come up with a way to shirk the blame. A. Never thought of it that way, but... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Censorship

Shortly after the discovery of fire, in journalism classes of the early 1980s, there was a lot of emphasis on the First Amendment, the public's right to know, and censorship. We had in Illinois at the time a "sunshine" law that prohibited officials from meeting in secret to decide actions. This... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thanks for those suggestions from yesterday & prior! Several will go

right onto the next prompts pages. Love you guys! Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 20, 2014

Write Your Own Story - Yesterday

Yesterday's session went better. It's clear the class isn't interested in writing for writing's sake - the notion of writing about a photo from someone else's album went over "like a lead balloon." Their topics were 1) how finding a date was different before the personals ads of the 70s and 80s and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Something ventured, not much gained...

Last Thursday at the Write Your Own Story session at the Center, I tried a new technique to spark the writers. Their assignment the previous week was to bring an old photo from the album, maybe someone from grandma's collection, someone whose name they might not know. The idea was to get them to be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Pictures and Words

There was an email from son John in the in box this a.m. He sent a selfie photo. Had I passed him on the street I might not have recognized him. His hair was buzzed short, maybe a quarter inch or so, his hairline has receded the way our family's hairlines do when the men reach their 40s. He has new... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Time Lapse Serendipity

This week NASA released a time-lapse photo taken by the Hubble telescope of a star exploding, a demonstration of what happened at the big bang, when everything was formed from "nothing." It's like watching a time-lapse of a flower opening - a pattern so similar it's almost spooky. If you think about... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 16, 2014

On Second Thought...

I just deleted my earlier post on Father's Day - a long rehash of posts from last year when I was searching out my father's military records. Instead I think it's better reading here to reflect on how my grandkids write about their dad on Father's Day. Angie, 30 now and mother to 11-year-old Ayden,... Sign in to see full entry.

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