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February 07, 2013 11:33 AM UTC --
My Worst Bike Ride
My worst bike ride happened when I was seven years old. The February day began on a bright note; it was sunny with an unusual bite of coolness in the Southern California . . .
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December 13, 2012 07:42 PM UTC --
Rose Light
Antelope Island and buffalo spotted with light raining down
Shadows and infinity
Rose colored against snow covered mountains and White Rock with occasional
Anvil clouds emerging . . .
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September 13, 2012 07:57 PM UTC --
The Shark
Wherever I am, whenever I hear the Beatles' song "Penny Lane", it somehow takes me back to a simpler time back into the 1960's and it transports me back, as if whooshed into a wormhole . . .
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September 07, 2012 08:09 PM UTC --
Joe
Joey was one of the many friends my son had in high school in the late 90's. My son is an only child but you would have never believed that when he was a teen, the table was always set for at . . .
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August 31, 2012 09:40 PM UTC --
When I was fifteen years old, my father embarrassed me on a regular basis. He'd always show up at marching band practice. He was also in the marching band in high school and in college and he thought . . .
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August 28, 2012 05:57 PM UTC --
I woke up this morning grinning, this would be the day. I came downstairs and began drinking ice water and plenty of it. I did manage to fit in a cup of coffee too but only one, coffee is a diuretic and . . .
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August 25, 2012 07:45 PM UTC --
Armstrong, even his name sounded heroic right off the bat. So did Buzz Aldrin. And poor Michael Collins, he's the one we usually forget when it comes to Apollo 11. I was twelve when we reached the moon, . . .
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August 24, 2012 10:18 PM UTC --
So as I write tonight, I have all the symptoms of the West Nile Virus. But I feel fine, really, just a weird stiff neck and a headache brought on by having a stiff neck and am feeling pretty certain that . . .
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August 23, 2012 04:35 PM UTC --
We've never had so many things, ever, and we've never been so unhappy. We take everything for granted.
"We've just gotta have it," we crooned when the first Windows-based PC's started coming out. It . . .
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August 15, 2012 09:00 PM UTC --
My brother made Halloween an art. He was the first person I knew who used a large pillowcase to collect treats in and by the time he got home, hours after we did, it would be filled to the brim. The following . . .
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August 09, 2012 12:15 PM UTC --
In the course of five months, I visited every home in my township; 2,256 doors were knocked on. I learned about campaign financing and realized I had to be as frugal as possible. I shopped for hours online . . .
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July 28, 2012 03:51 PM UTC --
We have succeeded beyond belief during Stage One of the invasion. We abducted an unsuspecting human, one we observed for quite a while before we specifically chose our subject. "Steve" resisted . . .
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July 25, 2012 10:01 AM UTC --
Out of all the Wes Anderson movies, known for exposing the whimsical eccentricities of the human spirit with quirky humor and an omnipresent dark undercurrent added in, this could be his greatest achievement . . .
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July 22, 2012 11:02 AM UTC --
Kristine
"Oh no, it's her again!"
I know, I'm back, it's written on all your faces. When I look in the mirror I know what you all see. I don't have any money to do something with my hair that's . . .
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July 17, 2012 10:28 PM UTC --
So I attended the annual Fourth of July parade. It was 102 degrees and the humidity was in the upper 90's. That morning my hair was perfect, I wore my "Vote for Deborah Anderson 4 Township Clerk" t-shirt . . .
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July 13, 2012 12:33 PM UTC --
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
What do you get when . . .
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July 08, 2012 01:57 PM UTC --
(This prompt gave me a good reason to revisit this story, one I all but gave up on so I sanded it down a bit and revised it.)
Other People's Things
Gwen spent the best part of the morning . . .
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June 30, 2012 11:00 AM UTC --
The Sailing Rocks of Death Valley
Don't exactly know how them rocks move, no, how them boulders move
Through Death Valley bein' pushed by
Wadda-you-call her?
That . . .
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June 23, 2012 07:59 PM UTC --
At work I'm able to dress comfortably with a good pair of walking shoes or a decent pair of sturdy tennis shoes. Most of what I wear is covered up by a lab coat anyway so fashion statements were important . . .
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June 21, 2012 08:30 AM UTC --
(This is a true story, her name was changed to respect the privacy of the individual.)
Carol's room was around the corner from my office. She was a nurse who contracted the hepatitis C virus . . .
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