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Where Are They Now?
August 13 is the birthday of three people I know. Well, that I knew. I’ve lost touch with two of them, but my calendar reminds me of their existence every year on this date.
The one person I’m still connected
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Reminders
Perhaps I’ve written about this before; I’m not sure. But I’m not going to review almost 1500 blogs to check it out. I’m just going to forge ahead. Some things bear repeating.
My topic today is appointments. You know: hair
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Ten Days’ Worth
It’s been ten days since my last blog; I didn’t intend to go so long without writing. It just happened. A lot of other things also happened.
My son’s Internet business is slowly working out the kinks in its new
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Lift-Off
Today, the company my son and his partner own launches a new website. It’s been more than two years in the making; and in that time the economy hasn’t been particular good to them. I don’t mean their personal finances;
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Denali
Something happened on June 7, my birthday. It won’t get a lot of publicity, but it’s important anyway. So instead of writing about the birthday dinner and the various acknowledgements and the restaurant’s flour-less cake with the symbolic candle, I
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Mother’s Day Musings
I have a modest proposal, one which requires no realignment of national priorities, no exhaustive jury trial, no international intervention. It may, however, make greeting card companies and florists angry.
Abolish Mother’s Day.
The idea for the modern Mother’s Day
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NAIBC
This past weekend Earl and I attended the NAIBC (pronounced Nay-Bic), short for North American International Banjo Convention. It was hilarious, although I hope none of the banjo players who were there are insulted by this description. It was also
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Grade School Reunion Redux
This weekend I entered a time capsule, one that transported me back to the late 1950s when my classmates and I were under the auspices of the nuns who staffed St. Louis Cathedral School and tried to mold our characters.
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The Villages
We’d heard of The Villages from other Michigan residents who seek respite from winter’s onslaught each year in Florida. It’s supposed to be a retirees’ dream come true, with year-round golf, homes in every price range, restaurants, movie theatres, and
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What’s Going On?
We’re four days down the road from exiting the Allure of the Seas; since then a Carnival line ship has been subject to a fire that stopped all other systems on the ship: commode flushing, air conditioning, lighting, and food
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