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Good-bye
I said good-bye to thousands of people in the past several days, and then threw them in the trash. Details of restoration and recovery of skills, details of loss and re-birth, notes of triumphs and tears - documented in manila files. I finger-traced all the...
Living Life as a Miracle at a Quarter to Three
My homework done, I was listening to WLS, as legendary a radio station in Chicago and its surrounds as KMET was in LA. Dick Biondi was the dee jay, the musical tour guide. There was only one radio in our country house, so I couldn't sequester in my room to listen and...
God’s Perfect Timing
Paper covers rock covers scissors... It is a childhood game On Sunday, God played it, too And allowed me to take this photo Coastal fog covered moon covered sun The eclipse scene in southern California Look with your eye, blink, exclaim, And run to get your camera...
The Final Forgiveness: Self
A year ago, I joined Pinterest, as every aspiring-to-be-published writer was advised, as a component of 'Platform' on social media that will advertise. It's a visual billboard of interests and inclinations, as you proclaim yourself to be. It's good for a writing...
We Live in the Projects
The great garage make-over of 2012 has begun! Yes, you read that right: 2012. My husband is a R&D man. Rather, he's an R&P man: Research and Planner. I often thank God for Google - and Larry should, too. He's occupied for hours on end, looking for garage...
Women and Mankind
Why is it that Women have the Wo(e) of Men and Men have the Kind? A friend's recent lament about her loving husband of 25 years will serve as example: She and I are Playmates. Not Hugh Hefner's brand, though we could have been in our prime, if only he'd shown up with...
Lucky
"DO YOU FEEL LUCKY? It's the line from a classic movie which, because Larry and I were dating, I went to see, despite the fact that I hate violence - verbal or physical - and that movie had plenty of both. I kept my eyes firmly shut much of the time, like an...
Country Manor
Country Manor: it's where I aspired to live. I clung to a dream with a dead wrong boyfriend during the early '70s. It was the name of a store where my Hadleyware collection began, gifts from his mother who craved my entrance to the family. Its edifice starred in the...
What’s in a name?
Micawber MEANING: noun: An eternal optimist. ETYMOLOGY: After Wilkins Micawber, an incurable optimist in the novel David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens. His schemes for making money never materialize, but he's always hopeful that "something will turn...
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