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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Woulda - shoulda - coulda

It seems like everything's happening at once. At 7:00 a.m. I woulda been putting things in the crockpot to make soup. I shoulda gone to the store yesterday and bought the stuff to make soup. I coulda, but I was busy on the phone talking to my heartbroken and embarrassed son who called to let me know... Sign in to see full entry.

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Give me Strength...

Help me get through this day, because I ain't gonna make it otherwise. (Sounds a bit dramatic, doesn't it? Like maybe there's a terrible ordeal ahead of me, like the dentist or some painful, embarrassing medical procededure...) Well it's none of those. It's Vickie. One of my writing buddies. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 16, 2014

Pity Parties... How do you avoid them?

Baleful came into the center a few days ago. She hadn't been there with her list of grievances against life the week before. She stopped by the bread table where we have the donations from Panera bakery - they give us their day-old leftovers to hand out. Picked out a bag of assorted bagels, grabbed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Playing Solitaire

Maybe it's human nature, or maybe it's just me - but there's a lot of symbolic meaning in a deck of cards. If you're looking for a story plot, you can attribute personality to the various figures and numbers: the queen of hearts may be loyal, the jack of diamonds a rascal, the king of clubs a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

It was Damnfoolishness...

He was out on a date, took a hit of GHB, something he'd never tried - He'd almost stopped breathing by the time the EMT's picked him up, so the ER doctors put him on a breathing machine. To insert the breathing tube, they have to sedate the patient. The ER doctor mentioned GHB - and I said my son... Sign in to see full entry.

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News from Seattle

Six a.m. Wednesday morning. I got to my desk with coffee in hand to find a blinking message on my phone. Caller ID said Harborview Medi. The phone number was a Seattle area code. Oh, God! The message was from a social worker at the medical center, if I was the mother of John, birthdate 12-30-71, my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Tatts & Tomorrow

When my granddaughter Amy (19) came home from California for mother's day and a get-together with her St. Louis friends, she walked into a storm of mother-disapproval. Tantrum, in fact. Accusatory emotional negative response. It seems Amy, now that she's on her own, decided to get a few tattoos. And... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 12, 2014

Hi-Def...

I used to see the world in high definition - better than 20-20 vision. I could look at a bird on a limb in the far distance and tell not only what kind of a bird she was, but what insect she was holding in her shiny little beak. I could spot a frog on a log in the midst of the fog. (Well that last... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

NFL Draft - St. Louis Rams pick Michael Sams

I'm not a big pro sports fan, and although I understand the "art" of American Football - it seems unnecessarily dangerous to knees and skulls. It's a money thing. We know there are all kinds of people cashing in on the sight of two teams of guys in tight pants going at the ball, in something less... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Thursday's Write Your Own Story session

It's a mixed bag, as they said in the 70s. Little of this, little of that, add in a sprinkle of nothin' and a couple of unwarranted assumptions. Mary was there, the new kid showed up, The 8th Dwarf (Chatty Kathy) was there, but Gloria still has not returned and we miss her. She told Mary she had... Sign in to see full entry.

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