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November 19, 2009 07:56 PM EST --
For the last year PBS has interrupted its regular schedule about once a month on weekends for pledge breaks, and they would continue that for several weekends in a row. They would substitute . . .
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November 18, 2009 01:33 PM EST --
I was brought up to believe that husbands were meant to make all the decisions in the family. Hopefully he would seek the opinion of his wife, but he would be the one to make ultimate decisions.
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November 16, 2009 03:28 PM EST --
A Devoted Son
Sometimes when I wake up in the wee hours of the morning and I can’t fall back to sleep, I surf TV to find something entertaining so I can enjoy my insomnia. At 2:25 a.m. . . .
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November 11, 2009 03:52 PM EST --
Here in San Diego County we have a lot of Navy families. I was a Navy wife myself for many years, and I am pleased that the family that moved into the 3-bedroom adobe house just down the hill on this . . .
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November 09, 2009 01:38 PM EST --
Armistice Day – Remembering those who died in World War I
There are probably a very few veterans of WWI left alive now, and the memories of it have faded. It is appropriate to focus on . . .
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November 06, 2009 03:52 PM EST --
It came to me in a dream last night – (I had a big piece of loaded pizza, just before I turned in.) It’s so simple I don’t know why someone hasn’t realized it before this. . . .
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November 06, 2009 01:49 PM EST --
Here is my entry in the Dogs Rule contest. I describe Sasha, a sweet little bitch who steals toys from the neighbors toddler.
Dogs Rule – Sasha
Dentitious
Obstreperous
Gamboling . . .
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November 03, 2009 07:10 AM EST --
To bring Leiberman’s story up to date, let’s review his past. Following an education at Yale and Yale Law School, since 1971 Joe Leiberman has been in public service, first as a Connecticut . . .
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November 02, 2009 10:08 AM EST --
As I resign myself to being awake, there is still no sign of dawn at about 5 a.m. in the deep canyon where we live. My cats have let me know they think it is time for me to be up. They are used . . .
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November 01, 2009 09:17 AM EST --
I just read a good article by Teresa A concerning how to stay healthy this winter. She had lots of good advice about drinking lots of water as opposed to soft drinks, coffee, and tea, eating good . . .
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October 31, 2009 04:02 PM EDT --
My beautiful bouquet of birthday roses
In rare shades of pink and tangerine,
Received at their peak of freshness with
Drops of water shimmering on their petals;
Each rosebud greeting me . . .
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October 31, 2009 02:55 PM EDT --
Any of you who have seen Peter Wimsey’s recent picture of two men in uniforms of uncertain origin, may know from my comments that I have done a lot of research trying to solve the mystery . . .
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October 30, 2009 06:03 PM EDT --
I just watched a movie on TV that was released in 2007 called The Jane Austen Book Club. I liked it. Afterward I looked up the reviews it got, and the nicest thing said was by the New York Times . . .
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October 30, 2009 01:07 AM EDT --
By that I mean to his eternal home. There are floods of tears being held back unsuccessfully around here tonight. He has been sick and failing fast for several months. Jane took him to the vet who said . . .
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October 29, 2009 12:42 PM EDT --
My mother had one joke, or maybe it is just the only one I remember. She told it something like this:
A woman was paying a condolence visit to a friend whose husband had recently committed . . .
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October 28, 2009 04:39 PM EDT --
I had a birthday yesterday, and Penny, my oldest grandchild and her husband Ralph, made it special for me about sundown. They cooked up a meal the likes of which I haven’t had for years. She . . .
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October 28, 2009 07:26 AM EDT --
There are commonly used words and phrases that, when analyzed, don’t express what people mean to say. The one I notice most often is when a friend is reporting a death in their family, and the . . .
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October 27, 2009 01:41 PM EDT --
Reinventing ME won’t work, I see.
Old nicknames don’t apply.
I’m stuck with all life’s birthday gifts.
I might as well comply.
A change . . .
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October 26, 2009 07:06 PM EDT --
My mentor has gone away for a while, but I will keep this seat warm and the keys hot in the meantime.
What interesting times we live in! That’s a Chinese curse you know. ‘May you . . .
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October 26, 2009 01:23 PM EDT --
On Halloween
I think I’ll reinvent myself
I’m tired of being me
I’ll disappear, take another guise
To see what I can be
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