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

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

LAST MISSION FOR PEACE

After a long career in public service, Kent Mann had hung up his cape and left his tights at the dry cleaners. He was, even in the mild atmosphere of his adopted planet, burnt out and done with all that mess. One perfectly ordinary Tuesday afternoon as he passed a Famous Coffee shop on 5th Avenue,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Happy Hump Day -

You probably know that calling Wednesday "hump day" started during the l-o-n-g era of the Monday-Friday work week. By Wednesday at quitting time we were over the hump and looking forward to Friday's happy hour and a couple of days off. Unless, of course, we were working moms with a whole weekend's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

'50S SONG: SWEET VIOLETS

There once was a farmer who took a young miss in back of the barn where he gave her a lecture on horses and chickens and eggs and told her that she had such beautiful manners as suited a girl of her charms, a girl that he wanted to take in his washing and ironing and then if she did they could get... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 1, 2024

Stop me if you've heard this one...

There was an old woman who said, When she found a thief under her bed: Get up from the floor, You're too close to the door, And I fear you'll catch cold in the head. Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 31, 2024

ONCE UPON A TIME...

Once upon a time there was a little brown bunny whose mother had been carried off by a hawk. He had no one to teach him the bunny way of life, although he had learned to forage for tender clover and other tasty greens. He sat under a cabbage plant in Farmer Brown's garden one morning, all alone and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 30, 2024

OLD FAVORITE

Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer by Mary Oliver I went out of the schoolhouse fast and through the gardens and to the woods, and spent all summer forgetting what I'd been taught -- two times two, and diligence, and so forth, how to be modest and useful, and how to succeed and so forth,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 29, 2024

THE AGREEMENT

Josie made her way to the outhouse from her kitchen door, leaning on her cane for balance. She saw a shadow in the underbrush at the edge of the clearing. Mama Bear was there, watching. She nodded a greeting, careful not to turn her face toward the animal. Part of their deal was to pretend not to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

A RITE OF SPRING

Today feels like spring is really here. Am watching the Cardinals' opening game on TV. They're playing at Dodger Stadium. In the '70s when we lived in the Leclaire neighborhood, I had the ironing board set up in a small room (former coal bin) in the basement, with the radio to keep me company. Those... Sign in to see full entry.

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FAMILIAR LOVE STORY

A week or so ago my granddaughter's 18-year-old stepdaughter got married in a chapel near Tacoma, Washington. There were bridesmaids, a bouquet, high hopes and the day was full of sunshine and wonder. Angela, my granddaughter, had married Alecia's dad just three years ago, taking on the mothering of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Power Outage

I was plunking along on FB when everything blinked and went off. When it popped back on, my apps had shut down. I barely got it all back to the way I like it, when it zapped off again. I looked outside to see if the neighbors were without power, but couldn't tell. They'd all gone to work earlier. An... Sign in to see full entry.

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