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Spring and Mother's Day are coinciding. Best weather for a weekend, best weather for the year, period. Sunshine and warmth and blue skies and happiness. I went to town this morning - and fou...

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I need to make a new general book. I start an entry and try to find an existing book to fit it and none work. Misc. here we come. It's Sunday morning in the middle of March. I am waking up a ...

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I just transcribed three of my old newspaper columns - chosen by random dates by someone who is not me. As I was going through one of spiral notebooks that contain my old columns, I came across ...

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I want to be competent. I don't want to be the best, I just want to be good enough. Sounds simple.... but it's not. %%^#^^^^ I suppose I'm talking about work. I suppose that's obvious. ...

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Prologue - It's almost six am and I am at my mother's kitchen table - mine now of course - in my dark red fleece LLBean robe. I finally took a bath last night and blew my hair dry afterward. ...

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First here's Dylan: Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son” Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on” God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?” God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but The next ti...

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A hundred years ago my mother was seven months old. My dad was six and a half years old. Ever since we passed their hundred year birthdays, I feel a little different about time. Events a hundr...

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Overnight we get a new year. It's a pivot in time. Totally arbitrary yet accepted around the world and for centuries. A year is a measure of time. A revolution of the planet around the sun. ...

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At some point I end up feeling the Christmas spirit. Usually it's about now. I either have made some preparations or I haven't, and either way it's ok. Whatever happens now will be this year's...

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I am not a shopper. I lack the shopping gene. I have not very pleasant memories of shopping with my mother. We were always seeking perfection without much money and there was always a good bit...

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My writing life is all over the place. At 750words my streak will get to 365 mid January. That's private and surprisingly satisfying. At OD my history lives. I've been there ten years and I...

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Four positive degrees Fahrenheit on the bank clock at midnight. Now it's fucking three thirty and I'm wide awake. I usually don't mind insomnia. I figure I'll sleep eventually. And I suppose I...

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I met two interesting men today. Both were in college town. The first one and I were walking down the downtown street together. We discussed weather and dogs. Pleasant conversation. He was...

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... lining yourself up with something. Making yourself agree with a set of expectations. Turning sideways as you enter a fast moving stream of water so you will go with the flow. Pulling out fr...

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When I worked at my old old job I always had the Friday after Thanksgiving off. It was a union negotiated holiday and the company went along with it for the people in the office too. Since my o...

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I took a bunch of pictures today. Not great pictures but maybe interesting ones. The top one is of the snow skiffs on top of the fresh ice on the pond at the park in town. The bottom one is ...

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Today was kind of busy. Some of it anyway. i talked to s. today. He didn't have much time which was just as well. i got myself up to do some of the things I needed to do. About 1 pm the Buic...

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Quiet night. After a quiet day. I did pretty close to nothing.

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The preview button on the tool bar is a toggle switch. On and it's preview, off and it's back to editing window. Neat. I used the italic button when I was writing about books, I like tha...

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I think there might be something in the stripey notebook. But I'd have to get up to get it. Lazy much? I bought a pineapple today. First time in a long time. It's very good but it makes my ...

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Third night of bulb planting. I have some lilies to plant too. I have not opened their box. There is time. I keep telling myself. The sun and sky were fantastic this afternoon. These last...

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.... at work. Busy. Put double sided tape on Cheeto signs that end up on convenience store doors. Black and orange with the Cheeto cheetah on them. Three strips per sign. Got ink for, caugh...

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I tried to write in the other place, my love, the place that owns me, that I own, and I couldn't. Twice now. Last night and this morning. It's there. But I am locked out. I am losing a lover...

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The famous/infamous wobble box. It's on the right side of the bean head for the combine. It converts rotation into back and forth motion to power the sickle blades that cut the bean stems. N...

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I've spent most of my life working in factories - from age 19 to now when I'm 67. I didn't intend to do that. I thought I would go to college and then write for a newspaper or a magazine or boo...

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