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SPAM
We returned from 8 days in Kauai where a favorite food is SPAM. I returned to over 300 emails in my email SPAM folder. You know you are getting older when... the junk topics shift from penis extension and soft porn (disclaimer - I didn't open!!) to... weight...
“You be the doctor! You be the doctor!”
"You be the doctor! You be the doctor!" I don't recall what I said prior, but the doc said this in wild, rapid retort. I think that he was abashed because, after I'd waited twenty minutes after being ushered into the exam room, after waiting twenty minutes in the...
People Pie
I like pie. You may, too...it's just fruit. Oh, and a little flour and sugar, two of the deadly great whites. It's a self-delusion to hide behind, to say that pie is just fruit. I can't stand behind anything because my body's plump. It's the berries - not. There's...
Costco Community
Costco shopping would be a great work out plan...if it weren't for all of the food vendor carts with samples. Small bites of this and small bites of that can add up to pounds of padding. Yum - let me pause to snack rather than stack the cart! While the vendor...
May Day!
Remember that holiday rite where you left a bouquet at a the front door of a friend, rang the doorbell, and ran away? Me neither. May be it was a florists' dream from the 1950s. Established as the first of May and entitled May Day! Which, of course, is a...
“Happy as Larry”
Social greetings differ according to the mores and customs of cultures. Here perfunctory is the default. We’ll be ‘Haooy as Larry’ when we travel soon in Australia, aka ‘Down Under.’
Conversational Repair Strategies
Conversation is an essential social endeavor, at the heart of being human. Conversation is dialogue, not monologue, though some people seem not to know it. It is also not diatribe, for anger just isn't that interesting. It does not create ties that bind. Connection is...
Stalwart
The bulbs were easy to slid into the damp earth early last December, the month of persistent mist and drizzle. They'd spent the obligatory six weeks in the refrig to emulate frost. Direct from Holland, their purchase was commemoration of my seventh year of...
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
As an avid Beatlemaniac, I have long agreed that the Beatles transformed the world. From men's hairstyles to social attitudes to musical innovation, their hands touched more than our hearts and their musical instruments. But who knew that the world's most famous...
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