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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Detective Granny or just a Nosy Parker?

There's been a "disturbance in the force" this year - ever since my youngest son's trouble that began in May. Of course it began much sooner, but since he's in Seattle and I live 2,000 miles away, it was easy enough for him to leave me out of the loop. The first rumblings came after his little... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Where Is Everybody?

These days I see former 'residents' of Blogitville on Facebook. "Blanche" - the feisty and some might say abrasive girl who wrote about her bi-polar condition and could swing from amusing and insightful to one of Hell's furies when one disagreed with her. The Powers That Be banished her for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 1, 2014

Calcium & Vit. D. Can you get too much of a good thing?

Short answer: Yes. It turns out, according to CSPI (the Center for Science in the Public Interest) reports from various highly reputable medical testing studies - too much calcium/vit D can contribute to kidney stones, and / or the very bone loss one hopes to prevent by taking the supplement in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Mothers & Daughters

When I was fifteen or sixteen my mother was a whirling dervish at times, flew off the handle for no apparent reason, legendary tantrums. At other times she would work tirelessly, planting and harvesting in the garden, sewing, or turning bits of tinfoil and a 4 x 8" square of glass from an old window... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Let's Celebrate Black Friday by staying home.

Which I did. In fact, the Writers Without Borders Because Borders Closed met at my house. It was not a productive meeting. I neatened up the place, moved the furniture around to make it a better conversation group, prepared veggies & cheese for snacks. Two o'clock came and went. At 20 past the hour... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 28, 2014

Mixed Bag on Turkey Day

Lynnette posted a photo on Facebook, a fancy dessert she'd made, I think she called it a roulade, a rich chocolate jelly-roll (gluten free) rolled around whipped cream and fresh raspberries. It looked like something Martha Stewart would have put in her magazine. And then came the other shoe,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Something I Almost Forgot...

In the late '70s - early '80s I was a J-student, working part time for a local newspaper and taking journalism classes. The department head was an award winning former editor with a cloud of Einstein-like white hair, whose word was law. He was - as far as we were concerned - the god of news writing,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Tuesday at the Center

Job One at The Community Center yesterday was to “man” the front desk, schedule the van to pick up our clients and get them to doctor’s office, grocery store, beauty shop, or more importantly, to The Center for lunch and bingo. But my personal mission was to locate contact info for one of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

We Don't Use Those Words!

We've been on edge for a hundred days, worrying about what would happen when the Grand Jury in St. Louis County announced its findings in the matter of an officer-involved shooting. The Ferguson neighborhood had suffered civil unrest since that day in August when the cop shot and killed unarmed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 24, 2014

Mama’s Ways

There’s a photo on the web of a couple kids in a big tee shirt, which is marked “Our get-along shirt.” Apparently some genius mom decided they’d become Siamese twins until they either settled their nit-picking, cantankerous dispute or got so tired of being ‘joined at the hip’ they’d declare a truce.... Sign in to see full entry.

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