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December 31, 2009 06:40 PM EST --
Old Year’s Day
This is my last opportunity to celebrate 2009. I’ll give it a B+.
This year marks the first year of my semi-retirement from clinical medicine . . .
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December 25, 2009 09:04 PM EST --
It rained on our snow but not on our parade. Both sons, both daughters, both sons in law and daughters in law and 5 of our 6 grandchildren were here with Barbara and me. Also . . .
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December 24, 2009 10:49 PM EST --
His law is love
His gospel: peace
The carol says.
Merry Christmas!
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December 16, 2009 06:23 AM EST --
She sheepishly shielded her expressions as she recounted the tale of having dropped her hopes into the slush between the curb and her Oldsmobile. A young boy had flopped in the snow . . .
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November 30, 2009 06:16 AM EST --
Almost because I used the cop-out of using the "x" sound instead of the first letter.
Actually Benjamin called Darla every Friday
Giving her intimate, juicy knowledge
Leaning . . .
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November 27, 2009 04:41 PM EST --
Curt L. has entertained and educated us with puzzles about plants, flowers, shrubs. I thought I'd try this and see how long it takes for a reader to come up with the answer.
This early 19th . . .
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November 26, 2009 06:49 AM EST --
My son and daughter-in-law are hosting today. Barbara has prepared some vegetable dishes and I thought I would make two cold soups: a roasted red pepper soup with guacamole salsa and a zucchini . . .
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November 25, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
I give thanks for plenty of good food
And pray for those who go hungry
I give thanks for a comfortable home
And pray for the homelesss
I give thanks for clothes for all seasons . . .
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November 18, 2009 06:58 PM EST --
I am dead serious , no point in asking me
Nothing’s more dangerous than such a trampoline
That WalMart Superstore coupon will never be
Used ‘cause it’s torn . . .
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November 07, 2009 09:14 AM EST --
My obsession for this prompt is one of my telescopes, a 1976 Tele Vue Renaissance 4 inch brass refractor. It’s the Halley’s comet commemorative model.
“I don’t . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:31 AM EST --
Always being confrontational
Despite every friendly gesture,
Her innate jealousy
Kindled little meaningful nurturance
Or propitious quality response. . . .
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November 02, 2009 08:09 AM EST --
The beaver builds his dam and lodge
While robin tends her nest
The badger claims his earthly den
While bees have hives for rest.
An aerie is the lofty home
Of . . .
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November 02, 2009 03:10 AM EST --
Astonishingly benevolent collaboration
Defined effective fraternity generosity.
Heueristic ingenuity juxtaposed kindness
Lavished manifestly not only pecuniary,
. . .
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October 27, 2009 12:39 AM EDT --
" This week's prompt is also a bit different. We're going to take Gatherland into a different place. There is no internet, no cell phones, no texting and no cars. We will exist . . .
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October 26, 2009 10:49 PM EDT --
Utopia?
She wonders
Since her death
Could this really be
Heaven?
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October 19, 2009 06:47 PM EDT --
Version II.
“It was on Halloween night in 1948. I remember because it was the year we celebrated Wisconsin’s Statehood Centennial. And I’ve come back on Halloween every . . .
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October 17, 2009 07:36 PM EDT --
Having missed the school bus, she decided to walk home. She knew the way, but decided instead to try a short cut. She had been in that woods before, but never all the way through. . . .
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October 16, 2009 08:16 AM EDT --
Where’s Wally?
“Have you seen Wally?”
“The last I saw him, he was in Mrs. Medusa’s front yard, but he was a mess and he didn’t smell very . . .
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October 15, 2009 01:14 AM EDT --
So Sarah snubbbed Ina
And Susan as well.
Then Ina dubbed Sarah
A snob job from hell,
Which rubbed Sarah wrongly
Because she had flubbed it
No snub was intended.
Still Ina threw tantrums . . .
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October 13, 2009 05:10 PM EDT --
1. Write a short piece with Halloween as the centerpiece. It can be poetry, fiction, essay or other prose.
2. Incorporate into it recollections of your childhood memories . . .
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