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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says… Sunshine Across the Styx
Yet another reason to be buried at sea. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
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The Daily Prompt: Do Not Disturb – the Real Moi
How do I manage my on-line privacy? That depends on the kind of privacy. On the trust scale — 1-to-10, 10 being fully open and 1 being Nixon — I have always had to fight against an inner Nixon, so...
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The Daily Prompt: The Normal – Pack Response
I’m not much interested in normal. To me, normal is average typical commonplace predictable unimaginative. However, normal is also fitting in. On dark days, I feel like everybody else knows the rules...
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The Daily Prompt: Take Care – Caught Me!
This Daily Prompt is disturbingly well timed. It catches me ducking the same questions in real life: Do I allow someone to take care of me?… What does it take for me to ask for help? Next week I will...
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The Daily Prompt: Person of the Year – Philip Marlowe
Detective Philip Marlowe is the person of this or any year, but don’t give him the award. He’ll be a no show at the ceremony and not just because he’s a work of fiction. Of all the characters I have...
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And Then The Doorbell Rang…
I have spent my adult life deeply agnostic and religion-avoidant, with two exceptions. My first summer in college, I went through dark times, and at some point decided it would help if I had faith. I...
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All Mod Cons
Elmore Leonard published the novel Pagan Babies back in 2000 but I just read it this week. It is an Elmore Leonard book, therefore the plot is full of cons and double crosses, the dialog is witty, the...
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An End to Needless Worry
(Today’s Daily Prompt says: write a letter to your least favorite trait.) Dear Anticipatory Hysteria, We’ve been together so many years and we will both have to adjust to life apart. But there is no...
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My Top Ten Risks (Whfff! Crash! Boom!)
I’ve got a whole list of risks I might take if only I get the nerve or suffer the judgment lapse. In decreasing order of sanity, they are: get a puppy (training a puppy sounds so unpleasant); write a...
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Canine Kindness
True story from some friends… Peaches was a rescue dog who liked being the only dog. A big, arthritic German Shepherd, she had the air of a retired police dog (though she wasn’t one). On walks, she...
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Self Reflection
(Today’s Daily Prompt says: finish this sentence…) When I look in the mirror I am reminded of hopes and fears see my mother, my sister, my son and feel awe at those family ties suffer flashbacks to...
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Unforgettable Lines
In yesterday’s post, I noted that I can never remember a joke’s punch line. That got me thinking about lines that perpetually run through my head. Here are just a few. How many of these do you...
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States of Mind
Today’s Daily Prompt requests a post opposite to what I usually make. Thus and voila, a cartoon. I often imagine that I have one of these signs on my forehead. (I don’t manage to imagine that I look...
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Staycations Away From Home
My favorite kind of traveling is to plant myself somewhere new and stay for a while, to get a sense of what it would be like to live there. I’m not drawn to monuments or tourist meccas, even though I...
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Como Se Dice “Better Late Than Never”
What the hey-ho, let’s start with a gratuitous video. I have always loved school. Except for high school, of course – as an adult, I discovered that nobody I respected had fared well in high school,...
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When Computers Are Obsolete
Today’s Daily Prompt said to envision life without computers. At first I went Luddite and imagined a low-tech existence but that makes no sense. I am not going to scrap the incredible capability and...
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Blogvolution
I started blogging as part of my effort to regain a writing career. (Warning to other writers: J.D. Salinger aside, not writing for two decades will not bolster your career.) Like most of my important...
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Picking at the Bedspread
Today’s Daily Prompt asked what bores me… I hate knowing what happens next. I used to evaluate screenplays for movie studios, and at a rate of 10 per week, it got so that no plot twist could surprise...
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Mom. Seriously. Are You *Crying*?
This week my twins turned 20! Here they are in the last few hours of their teen years. They actually let me take a picture. Best 20 years of my life, even during the worst moments of my life, because...
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Why Go To College?
I’ve always loved school, as I recently posted. My college days were a fantastic, ne’er-dupulicated experience: I got exposed to new ideas, unimagined worlds; I had tons of fun and many of my college...
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