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Posted in just musing, life on September 29, 2008 | 9 Comments »

When I left California in early August, I drove through smoke and ash and ugliness as wildfires raged all around me. It wasn’t the California I had been born in or grown to love for fifty-two years. It was a kind of bittersweet trip as I made my way north, accompanied only by Molly, my [...]

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Posted in just musing, life, memoir on September 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I treated myself to a late dinner at a local diner.  I hadn’t been out of the house in a couple of days and figured I should take myself out.  When I arrived at the restaurant, a copy of In Cold Blood in hand, all was quiet, especially for a Friday night.   I ordered my [...]

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Fossils

Posted in life, life's little treasures, women on September 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »

You know the saying about one door closing and another opening? Well…
Having recently moved to this area, I don’t know anyone here. Well, I know the property manager and I know one blogging friend. I wanted to meet more people so I searched craigslist.org for groups and classes that might lend themselves to meeting people [...]

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On the Eve of Ike

Posted in life, tagged on September 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »

When my grandmother died last January, my two uncles and my mother decided to sell her house. My mother and one of my uncles live in California. My other uncle lives in San Antonio, Texas. My grandmother’s house is in Corpus Christi, Texas. I knew at that time that I was going to move out [...]

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Alice Appleknocker

Posted in memoir on September 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I remember Alice Appleknocker.
Debbie was a classmate in my first year Journalism class.  I was a freshman and she was a Junior.  Journalism was during sixth period.  Our teacher, Mr. Del Rio, usually walked into class right as the tardy bell rang.  I was coming from the same department so I arrived quite early.  Most [...]

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Seek And Ye Shall Find (*Or Ask And Ye Shall Be Given)

Posted in breakfast, diabetes, expenses, life's little treasures, tagged on September 8, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I eat a lot of yogurt. Sometimes up to three of those little cup-ish packages from the store. However, like the price of everything else, the price of those little individual servings has gone way up. I am paying about 69 cents a piece (if I use 3 per day, this makes it over [...]

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PTA, Mothers, & Sarah Palin

Posted in life, mothers and daughters, tagged , , , , on September 3, 2008 | 17 Comments »

Okay, I was going to keep my mouth shut about this but here I am.

PTA is a phenomenal organization. I have seen people rise through local PTA to the regional, state, and national level and many have gone on to political office. PTA teaches its members many things, among them, how to network; how to [...]

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