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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Another Dick and Carol...

I wrote a short thing and published it here a few months back. It was titled "Cemetery Dogs" and it was about this widow (Carol) who went with a couple widow friends to visit their deceased husbands at the cemetery. Her dearly departed (Dick) had been a dog and a chaser, hadn't even been very... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

When you don't know "jack" (from an email I got from Larry)

A congressman was seated next to a little girl on an airplane so he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger." The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, "What would you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Catchup...

Son Joe didn't break up with his sweetheart after all. Despite a fundamental disagreement on the meaning of life and politics, they're dealing with the 90 miles that separate them, their individual kid issues (each has two teen-aged kids still in the house). They're phoning and offering parental... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Cluck, cluck, cluck. The sky is falling.

Chicken Little ran in circles squawking and clucking: "The Sky is Falling." It seems a leaf fell and landed on her head. Earlier this morning I tuned in to CNN and its HSN sister for a few strident minutes. They continue to "run in circles" and blather speculation as fact. In this instance it was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Dennis Leary is right. 2011 sucks.

If you saw him on "The Daily Show" the other night, or on "Joy Behar" or "The View" then you heard about his new book about how we suck. He did such a job on "Rescue Me" you could forget he's basically a stand-up comic -- ascerbic, negative, even downright nasty at times, but funny. I have a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Not my fault...

That 73-year-old sheriff in Tucson put his finger on one of the most distressing problems in America these days. "Vitriol." First of all, I was mighty impressed that the man spoke so clearly, presented his argument in such a reasoned way. You know he was a product of a bygone educational system when... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Word!

It's a great word processing program. No doubt about it. But sometimes the headers and footers, the page numbering and section thingies drive me nuts! You say that's not a drive, it's a putt? So be it. I'm trying to get "922 Holoyoake" into final form for submitting it to publishers. Yes, fools... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

A serious person, once a worry wart, but a little crazy

That would be my definition of me. Sometimes -- although I fight the tendency -- I am a bit uptight, a touch judgmental: square. I catch the grammar-teacher strict-sister impulse taking over and I fight that sense of superiority like crazy if I see it coming. When I was nine and figured out what was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

The Senility Prayer

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference. Remember: You don't stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing!!! Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 7, 2011

A touch of irony.

In my "job" transcribing century-old newspaper articles for the Historic Leclaire website, I know I came across at least one article in which the issue of annexation to the city of Edwardsville came up. Leclaire was an independent village, a cooperative. Residents, often also employees of the N.O.... Sign in to see full entry.

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