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I miss my diet Pepsi. In the last selkie movie “Ondine”, the main character was trying not to drink and there wasn’t an Alcoholics Anonymous in his town, so he would go the priest in the con...

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… do me a favor, please. Tell me why you don’t like Updike. Emphasis on why/what you don’t like. Thanks greatly.

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Thank you all for your good (and otherwise) advice. I compiled it for my writer’s group and it was popular. The ‘don’t gain more than 5 lbs after marriage’ got a laugh. I have leftover...

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Beautiful perfect weather. More time with Gracie. Beef stew.

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Next week’s writing topic is best/worst advice you’re gotten from a parent or other adult. After some thought, all I’ve got is: My dad telling me to leave the car in second gear till I got to t...

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loyalty? or variety?

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He was Cash’s soninlaw. Roseanne’s hubby. Somebody left somebody. Oh and one more. I associate this song with Waylon.... but it’s Rodney’s. End of this one above has an L-shaped piano. H...

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https://imgur.com/gallery/NPd1n2L I didn’t search for this. I found it totally by accident.

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In the spring of 1969, my husband bought a 1968 Olds Dynamic 88, dark gray 4 door, a monster of a car, beautiful, tricked out and tricky. How we had enough money to buy a year old ‘luxury’ car ...

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Jim just had me go across the creek and up in the clearing to bring back Joana’s pickup. We went in the side by side thingie - I wore my seat belt. The sun had set and left this exquisite blu...

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Have you ever thought of giving someone/someone here advice without being asked? Or even if asked? I know it’s never welcome. But sometimes it just looks like people have blind spots. It l...

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I guess those of us who had our abortions when it was legal are the lucky ones.

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Today’s his birthday. He’s 78 if he’s still alive. I have a mutual friend I ask about him but the last few times the friend hasn’t had anything to say about him. I have a phone number that I ...

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Ideas Plans Goals Well what about them? I have no ideas. I have almost no plans. I definitely have no goals. There that takes care of that. What do I have? Cats. Potato chip crumbs. Bad hair. A f...

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For the last five years or perhaps longer, every summer the Bible is read on our county courthouse lawn. It takes a whole weekend. It gives me the creeps. Every year I want to protest it. ...

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… things. I wonder if I gain anything at all. It’s that point in life, I suppose. That time when you see what’s gone, not what’s here. Days pile up. Some in front, more behind. The one that c...

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Someone posted a different version of this song today. Then I looked up the lyrics. The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the gi...

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I saw the Julia Belle Swain going upstream by Riverside Park this morning. https://www.rotarylights.org/live-river-cam.html Here’s John Hartford’s lyrics. This is a song about the Julia Belle Sw...

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Favorite author? Well I have a string of them. James Baldwin. Graham Greene. John Updike. Theodore Dreiser. Michener, a bit. The spy guys. Le Carre. Maugham. Greene, again. Fitzgerald. Sinclair...

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… this one with booze. https://sherpglobal.com/ Oh wait. Wrong link. This one’s good too. They come from Ukraine. Honest. Here’s the artist. https://www.lethbridgegallery.com/artist/oliver-s...

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His name is Charles Sheeler. And here is a site that tells about him. Look at his quotes if you can. There are seven of them in the middle lower part of the frame. Click through to read th...

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I have change. So I took my coins out of my walking rotation. I put the quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies into their respective collection glass jars on the counter. I have plenty of bot...

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Watch Merle flirt - it was 1978!!!! - and the sexy fiddle player, my god.

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