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HERE’S TO INDEPENDENCE!!
“We repeat ourselves generation to generation. We do it in different languages, under different skies and in different times but the pattern doesn’t change. . .Some of us die fighting like those who won our independence. Some of us have no fight at all. Most of us lie somewhere in between.” Read more
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SOWING SEEDS
“Writers are people who talk to themselves on paper. . hoping others will eavesdrop. Words evaporate in conversation, so i write to hold on to the thoughts. But ultimately i write because I hope someone will read it.” Read more
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KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN
“He looked perfectly fine with a nice haircut and everything, only his eyes were closed and he wasn’t breathing. I know because I stood there long enough to be sure of that.” Read more
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GETTING THERE JUST HAPPENS
I pretty much have an answer for everything and even when I don’t, I pretty much come up with something. Every now and then, though, I get thrown. Today, I was at a loss for words not once but twice. A gal in her 80’s asked me what it was like, “to feel that… Read more
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EXTENDED PLAY (EP)
“But I wanted to know WHO wrote that song, so asked that he be pointed out. As the audience began to applaud, I strained to see where he was. There, in the very back row, an older man with white hair shyly put up his hand.” Read more
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FACE OFF ALZHEIMER’S WITH FACEBOOK
Two years ago my 15 year-old suggested that I get a FACEBOOK. I told her that was ‘the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of.’ I am eating my words. In the last two years I have found not only old friends, teachers and ex-students, but have entered a cyberspace world that adds richness to my… Read more
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PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
“There’s nothing worse than being in the middle of a great ride and having some idiot suddenly turn in front of you with cartons of eggs in their little, front section. So, I try limiting myself a bit during Easter. One good thing about getting older is that experience has long taught you what does… Read more
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‘TODAY IS JUST NOT A GOOD DAY’
“Well, it isn’t the distance, really. It’s my ugly feet. I have very short toes, you know. It’s hereditary. My mother had ugly feet.” Read more
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“GRAY IS THE NEW BLONDE”
That’s exactly what the receptionist said to me this afternoon as I was paying a doctor’s bill. I had just made fun of their new office sign which said: Settle Your Encounters Here. “Encounters? Good grief. Why don’t you just say, ‘Bills?’ Are we going back to the 70’s or something?” The young receptionist, (who reminded me… Read more
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