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Monday, May 16, 2011

Straight? Flush? or aces and eights...

In old time western movies there's often a poker game. Body language among the cowboys tells who's got a winning hand, who came up with aces and eights. Dead man's hand, aces and eights. I think it was Buffalo Bill holding that hand when some drunken cowboy looking to take a bite out of his fame... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Sleep on it...

There are scientists now who advise, when you've got a problem chasing itself around and around in your mind, to sleep on it. Can't decide an issue? Stalled at the fork of a choice where either path you take may be scary? Sleep on it. Apparently your subconscious computer of a mind will chew and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Cormac McCarthy...

The first book I read by this author was No Country For Old Men. To say it depressed me would be an understatement. At the end I wanted to throw it at the wall or burn it. But it got a lot of wonderful reviews -- the Coen Brothers even made an academy-award winning movie of it. So you can discount... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child...

I found this one in a poetry collection I'd submitted to a publisher a year or so ago. Come to think of it, I've never heard from them since. I wonder if they actually rejected it, or if they simply took my entry fee and blew it on lattes.... How, Orphan? To be without kin is to be outcast in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 13, 2011

Chit Chat and motivation

I got a phone call from June yesterday. Unusual. She almost never calls me. She's on her son's cell phone service and has a Texas area code. She thinks it will cost me for long distance if I have to call back. She was just talking to Jean, she said. They want to get together for coffee and a chat on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

There be dragons...

Naut spoke of that white area on his "map" where he does not venture in his comment about DWT yesterday. His comment got me thinking, my thoughts branching and circling like vines around a tree. First of all, it seems to me we all have places like that, things that simply bore us to death. Sometimes... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

DWT has got me -- although I hate to admit it

Can't help it. I caught myself clicking on Dancing With the Stars for the results show despite my determination not to waste time on such pointless fluff. I don't vote. But I identify with Kirstie Alley -- who started out the least likely to make it through a single routine, let alone give the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Hot, humid, July-like. And strawberries

The birds and squirrels are going to be so happy in another week or so. My strawberries along the fence bloomed like mad last week, and I noticed yesterday there are several thumb sized green berries set on the vines already. I have to set up fencing to keep the birds and squirrels out of them,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 9, 2011

Leave your ego in the drawer.

When I was a journalism student in the early '80s, I also worked as a beat reporter for a local newspaper. I covered city council, school boards and other meetings, did "day in the life" interviews, sometimes took along a 35 mm camera and shot photos. If the paper was covering an important story,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Happy Mother's Day...

I met June and Jean for coffee at the hottest spot in town this morning. Coffee Heaven was jammed. It took fifteen minutes to get through the line to the barista, and June slipped in ahead of me to buy coffee for the three of us. We were there awhile when another woman showed up: Connie -- she'd... Sign in to see full entry.

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