Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Short Sprummer - Two (count 'em) two days for cats' sake.

It was 80-something yesterday, bright sunshine here in Middlewisp. It will warm up nicely today, too - and the leaves on the maples out front have bloomed large enough to make shade just when it's time for porch-sitting. We'll get ten minutes - maybe - while the halfway decent weather holds. It's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Decline of the American Empire...

Years ago when I was doing typing for dollars to supplement my insufficient paycheck, I typeset the manuscript for a guy in the Public Administration department at SIU. That publisher demanded it typed on a certain form, camera-ready. He was teaching and didn't think he could meet the deadline. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Say Howdy to the Queen

I almost didn’t go to the library yesterday. Big crowds and minding my manners make me feel closed in and tense. It was not my day to work in Carnegie’s, and there was a big party scheduled downstairs to honor the Chief Librarian who retired after 33 years. Everybody was scheduled to be there: board... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

My nephew dropped in...

He was here about two hours here at the midpoint on his road trip between Salem, Oregon and the beaches of North Carolina. Larry and his old buddy Pete stopped about half an hour west of here to visit some of Pete's folks - spent their get-together at the Cracker Barrel there. So by the time they... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 26, 2013

ELF Schedule Update

Meg called a couple days ago, said the ELF schedule needs to be retyped at once! Well, she didn't SAY at once, but when Meg says jump I make like a frog. She's right. The pencil corrections and scratchouts were messing up the look of my neat table, which is set up like a weekly calendar, Sunday thru... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

School Days...

It was a day pretty much like today: sun came up about an hour before we had to run for the big yellow bus, mom was hacking her lungs out in the kitchen, setting a match to the kindling, rattling the percolator under the kitchen faucet to make the first pot of coffee. She'd sit there in her robe and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Strawberry Fields Forever...

I miss the '70s, the hippies, the Beatles, the energy and optimism we felt. Everyone had an opinion, nobody was shooting up schools and terrorism was something we had to look up in the dictionary. At least it seems that way to me. It was tie dye shirts, necklaces strung together, big peace symbols,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

The Supreme Court's Decision...

A few weeks ago the Supreme Court heard arguments about DOMA - the Defense of Marriage Act - that has to do with who's legally married. Some states say it's legal for same-sex couples to marry, most do not. There are states that allow gay or lesbian couples the same benefits, such as being covered... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Enormous changes...

I've been making assumptions about what's under that beige berber carpet for at least eight years. Based on how it felt to walk on it, like it was lumpy underneath, I assumed the carpet in the two rooms and hallway that were finished in the basement had been laid over rough concrete - something... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Writer's Plot Device - Reversal of Fortune

If you've ever read a story that kept you enthralled, there had to be triumph over adversity that began with a reversal of fortune. Poor little kid's mom dies, he ends up in an orphanage and is put to work begging on the streets and turning the money over to the guy who runs the place. Classic. Boy... Sign in to see full entry.

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