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I am having a tough time with my encounters of the students in the after-school care program I’m in. What I learned - and how I was taught! - doesn’t match up with what the kids are learning thes...

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The English language has SO many diverse words available, so why do so many find it necessary to use the “F” word? I find myself ‘liking’ fewer and fewer Facebook entries that use that expression...

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Forty-nine years ago, Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta, Ohio, became the first man to step onto the Moon. Neil has passed on, but left us with the remembrance to “wink at the Moon”.

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On Friday nights I usually listen to 99.1-FM out of Taos, NM. However, I happened to tune in to KRZA-FM from Alamosa, CO, and they were playing the above mentioned song. I stayed with the broadc...

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It’s now the five-time World Champion New England Patriots! In the best Super Bowl EVAH! New England won in the first overtime in the first EVAH! o/t Super Bowl. Sure - I was a little tense throu...

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The last day of the month, and I think I’ve got an entry for each day now. November was…interesting. We had the national elections, Thanksgiving came and went, we moved into the new kids buildin...

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Catchin’ up… It’s our second day in the new kids building, and while we’re finding several things that need to be finished, the kids LOVE the new place. The room are HUGE, and in spite of the (la...

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(Has it been since March since I last wrote here? Yikes!!! :-) ) As I recall, ‘63 was a busy year. The most memorable event, of course, was President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. I was in ...

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2016? And it’s almost over?? Where has the year gone??????? :-) My grandma used to say the older you got, the faster the years would pass, and being five years old I thought she was wrong. S...

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It’s Sunday, ‘my’ Patriots won a close one, and I just tried to see the International Space Station off to the southwest. (No dice on that last one – she must have been too low…) The holiday mus...

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According to the news, Fidel Castro has died. I remember when he first came to power (I was six or seven in ‘59). Seeing his picture on the evening news I thought he was a notably good person - ...

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Ah - the day after Thanksgiving when I’m gonna have my own Thanksgiving (see previous entry). And it’s Black Friday, too. I found my misplaced Carhartt jacket, so my Black Friday shopping includ...

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(Why is my keyboard’s “O” key so intermittent?) Awright… We moved more stuff in the new building. New kid-sized tables and chairs, a new, HUGE refrigerator and an almost-as-big freezer, and a bu...

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My first-ever court ‘appearance’ was scheduled for 8:30AM. I’d received the summons late in October, and today was the day. But - when I got to the courthouse I found that a) there was no judge ...

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It’s Thanksgiving Day - the 24th - so I’d better git a-goin on the catching up! We got all the stuff moved for the kids, s now we start putting it away. The contractors/subcontractors are kinda b...

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It’s Thanksgiving Day. I do not have the pans, etc. for getting the turkey roasted and the mince pie baked, so I’ll curl up with “Executive Orders” by Tom Clancy and vegetate! After taking care ...

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Welp - it’s Thanksgiving Day…and I have nothing to roast the turkey in! Nor do I have the pie plates in which to bake the mince pie (yum!!!)! And – since I won’t go shopping on a day which I th...

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Pats win!!! :-) [Ahem…] Spent a good part of the morning and part of the early afternoon at the tractor shop listening to NPR and C-SPAN. NPR’s Sunday morning host Rachel Martin’s last day was ...

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Hmm - Saturday… I spent a good part of the morning at the tractor shop and with the chickenzzz, did some grocery shopping, followed by some housework (not enough, though! :-) ), then saw the “Fan...

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An excellent, excellent day!!! We got everything moved before noon-thirty today! We started with five people plus three of our older students, two pickups and a trailer; had one more (plus trail...

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Thursday, and it’s the last day for us in the ‘old’ location, for tomorrow we start moving at 8AM. Tomorrow is also the deadline for the transportation grant for non-profits. It’s for $25K, and ...

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Awright - let’s see of I can write a NoMoJo entry on time! snicker It’s early on Wednesday morning, I have my coffee (light with two sugars), NPR News is on, and I’m tryping on my laptop. (A typ...

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Worked three hours at the plumbing shop today. Had just two customers - one was a refund! - and a guy looking for directions. Then it was the monthly teleconference, then volunteering with the k...

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What an incredible Moon!!! The ‘supermoon’ is today, and seeing this heavenly body was just…fascinating, and to quote Buzz Aldrin: “Since forever, no one but Americans have walked on the Moon.” ...

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Remember yesterday’s entry? Today is the same - ‘cepting the parade, of course! :-) Found some overlooked items(!) that are due this week and next; have several (3+) meetings this week starting t...

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