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

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Cowboy days -

I was thinking at surface level about how much I used to enjoy stories about the old west, and the characters who populated novels. My favorite bits were not the cowboys around the campfire after the herd was settled for the night. I mean, they could strum their guitars and sing or swap lies over a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Blue Moon, Isaac, and conversational waffles

Our first man on the moon is to be laid to rest today - U.S. flags will be at half staff to honor him. Tonight is the 2nd Full Moon of August - the blue moon. We won't be able to see Neil Armstrong's footprints from our neck of the woods because Isaac is moving slowly across our bi-state region.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Everybody says he's "a character."

Went for my follow-up exam to the surgeon who kindly relieved me of my gall bladder 30 days ago. My own dear Dr. M had recommended him after he took a look-see at my vitals and so forth, saying he's a good surgeon and quite a character. Surgeons I've met - other than the ob gyn guys - seem to have a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Uncle Albert, CCT ... also a report on the writing women

I cannot tell you how much fun I have reading CCT's lighthearted bits about Uncle Albert and the other denizens of his mind. Between his poetic time travels and nostalgic visits to youth and romance and his photos of flowers that almost breathe scent into the air, his posts are real escapes from... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Paved with good intentions...

I had never met my mom's cousin Hazel or her husband Mike. At least I didn't remember it. Mother talked about her from time to time during my senior year at dear old MHS. After I got a job with the phone company in Seattle, Mom drove us up to their home in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. I'd met... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 27, 2012

And now, back to those thrilling days of yesteryear...

There were horses on a TV show yesterday, something about polo ponies, how expensive they are, and the training involved, and why polo's the sport of kings. But there were scenes of horses on the move, in a herd, and I remembered a summer day when I lived in the Salkum Valley of the Cascade... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

You are my nightmare...

Many months ago I mentioned the shock I felt when someone I knew well, a high school Spanish teacher, was arrested and charged with having sexual relations with a seventeen year old girl. Now this guy, let's call him Mr. Perv, was 49, and had been a teacher for 20 some years. The girl was one of his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

The Glamorous Life...

It took two hours in the Chair of Beauty to effect a change. My shaggy bangs and collar length hair, varigated shades of gray, white, brown, auburn, had been fly-away, unruly, a kind of shaggy bob. To tell the truth, I'd been hacking away at it over the bathroom sink as the spirit moved me for the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 24, 2012

Pins & Needles

Unless you were brought up before cell phones and text messages, you may not have learned about needles as things to be used for sewing, fancy embroidery, cross-stitch samplers, mending. Pins to tack two bits of fabric together for sewing on the old Singer machine, pins to hold alterations in place.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Quote of the day

I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience torpid through virtuous inaction are more to me than corner lots and praise. Mark Twain, from A Cat-Tale Sign in to see full entry.

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