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untold stories
Family anecdotes, we all have them. The only problem is in sharing them. Those stories are for those in the group, like a secret club. Just the immediate family members are privy to those memories. They are amusing to us… Continue reading
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A Hallmark holiday
With Valentines day just around the corner I was thinking about being in school. It would have been about this time we would have been getting ready for that. I remember there being a big box that we had decorated… Continue reading
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this and that
I didn’t stay up to watch the State of the Union address. When I got up the news showed Nancy Pelosi tearing up the speech. I heard the end where there was some booing from the Democrats. I guess I… Continue reading
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buttocks and inuendo
I read many comments yesterday about the half time show at the super bowl. I wrote a number of them as well. In short I found that show to be inappropriate for the venue. I know very little about Jlo… Continue reading
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An epitaph
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. ( Thoreau ) I ran across this the other day and was amused by the truth of that statement. Perhaps it was only because of the recent tragic death of Kobe Bryant… Continue reading
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history repeats
It’s groundhog day; again. I missed the one back in ’53 but have been around for every one since. Phil has been hauled from his burrow every year. Really he lives in the library with his wife Phyllis and is… Continue reading
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right or wrong
I am often told that things aren’t black and white. I understand that, I also understand that in that grey area we can’t know where we are going either. Still, I think in binary terms, like a computer program.… Continue reading
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celebrating failure
After writing yesterdays blog I continued thinking about what I was trying to say, or rather explain. I talked a bit about my parents, and probably for most of you reading this, your parents generation. Often called the greatest generation… Continue reading
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secret explanations
It’s been some time since I worked on the family tree. I have to take a break every now and again when I get wandering down some branches that lead nowhere. Some folks call them walls to break through, but… Continue reading
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not long ago
Being a retiree I go to a lot of Drs. appts. As the commercial says, that’s what you do. I also go to have blood drawn often, I think they are just checking the level, like an old car I… Continue reading