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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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Sunday, November 23, 2014

How About That!

Late October my printer gave up and quit. I'd had it for 3 or 4 years, it had a good life. But it was inconvenient timing. I was just getting ready to print out the "After All" text for my sis's birthday. However, I saved it to a flash drive, took it to Office Max and got copies made much more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 22, 2014

A Little Help From My Friends...

I'll get by with a little help from my friends, I can fly with a little help from my friends, etc... It was top of the charts once. Classic Beatles. (Nobody writes like that any more.)There was also a much earlier one: "Friendship" that was the theme song for a TV show, "My Friend Irma." Friendship,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 21, 2014

It’s Not About You (or is it?)

This is my second attempt to create a blog this a.m., and I’ve gone outside Blogit’s neat little cubicle to compose it, because the first attempt got snagged by a careless keystroke. I hate when that happens. So I’ve been working on the Write Your Own Story workbook, trying to get it organized by... Sign in to see full entry.

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