Katren...In Conclusion ⋅ 85 ⋅
Two decades were spent being a Daddy's girl, a young member of Mensa, a winner of essay contests, the author of one published novel, and a proofreader. The second 2 1/4 decades spent as a wife, mother amd Girl Scout Leader, not always in that order. Another 2 1/4 decades in charge of a network of computers in a small college, teaching computer subjects (mostly languages) and running a small educational software company. Since, things have gotten a little various. Read if you wish.
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Update in The Common Room
I got to the wedding. Vwery tiring. If I had the energy I would describe what I remember Venue out in country = three hour drive. SIL Tony so nice. We talked . Don ‘t get to see enough of him. ...
No title in The Common Room
Today at 7 is Lillibet’s wedding. I am alone. Daughters getting ready for wedding. Son in klaw should pick me up. Having much trouble breathing. Please let me get through the wedding . I don’t w...
Trying to Process in The Common Room
Husband has been getting stranger and stramger. Such faulty logic and weird behavior.Friday he went to the grocery store and called me several hours later saying he had just arrived but couldn’t ...
Do You Remember These? in The Common Room
I was searching for a file, which I did not find. Along the way, I found a copy of an old OD file from October of 2004. It was othing special. I don’t know how it strayed to where I found it. The...
Mesa Verde -- Abort in The Common Room
*** I’m working on things to help Husband remember. He doesn’t rremember most of our vacations. This is helping, at least for now. Thought I might share it with you . too as I don’t write much no...
The Survey Goin' Round in The Common Room
Is there anybody you just wish would fall off the planet? Yes, if it were very, very quietly. How do you flush the toilet in public? Do you mean “”How do you flush a public toilet?” With a pie...
Happy Birthday in The Common Room
241 Today, the US Marine Corp is 241. Dearest love and deepest respect to those who once shared this life, upon whatever plane of existence they now dwell. Brothers, sons, lovers who will ever b...
November in The Common Room
Is it really?
Simple Mind's Survey in The Common Room
This is either a cheat of an entry or a really easy thing with most of the typing done for me. Thus endeth the philosophical discussion. What country do you call home? Do you like it? Any plans ...
Opal Mining in Idaho in The Common Room
A final episode from our 1983 Rockhound Trip. (I am writing this, illustrated with photos, to help Husband remember.) We’re off to try a hand (his) at opal mining in Idaho. … Lima, Montana, wher...
The Sapphire Mine in The Common Room
Here’s another section of our 1983 trip, which I call “The Great Rockhound Road Trip.” Leaving Yellowstone by the western gate, we go north and west through Butte Montana and Anaconda to Phillips...
Continuing the Great Rockhound Roadtrip in The Common Room
Still working on the album to help Husband remember. West on Colorado 160, over La Veta Pass. Where my confidence is not improved by the roadside monument, alongside a set of spring fed water f...
Working on the Album in The Common Room
I’m still working on an album about a long vacation Husband and I took. His failing memory has wiped out much and hearing the story while looking at the photos helps him remember. Doing this is...
Birthday in The Common Room
Happy 240th birthday to the United States Marine Corp May the celebration be great among those still upon this plane. May those who rest beneath the long soft grasses, in rows beside comrades or ...
Survey in The Common Room
The light from the window is especially good today. I know where I left my magnifying glass. I slept pretty well – so here I’ve sat for about three hours, doing this. It’s probably guilt ‘cause ...
Things that slither in the night in The Common Room
If it’s late at night and you’re the only person awake in the house and something brownish and fist size slithers along the back-splash of your kitchen sink as you fill a glass with water– and i...
Still Not Dead in The Common Room
Been in the hospital a couple more times/weeks. Stroke symptoms with horrible headaches and serial vomiting fosr hours . Have added neurologist to the collection. No one could find any sign of ...
A Survey -- And Some Pie in The Common Room
Am home. Mobility better, but not strong. Communication better, but frustrating. Head very peculiar inside. Will elaborate later.. This took a while. What did you do in 2014 that you’d never do...
Title Here in The Common Room
Stroke days before Christmas. Cause unknown. Hospital. Communication and motion consequences. Feel like bomb with hung fuse. Your entries keeping me partially sane.
NoJoMo 25 -- in The Common Room
Prompt – What is your most vivid memory of the kitchen in your childhood? THE kitchen would not be in the little rent house on Eden street, where Momma and I (and Daddy, before the war) lived and...
NoJoMo 24 -- Woo-woo in The Common Room
Prompt – What’s your first memory? I’m not sure what my first memory is, but one of the first ones is of Woo-woo, a large grey and white striped tomcat. I have been told that Woo-Woo arrived on...
NoJoMo 23 -- Change Something? in The Common Room
Prompt – If you could go back in time and change one things from your past, what would it be? Are you kidding me? Doesn’t anyone out there read Science Fiction? The answer to the question”Who di...
NoJoMo 22 in The Common Room
Prompt – Where would I live if I could live anywhere? I’ve often said “Jusst get me out of Texas.” Since there has never been any question of that – full-grown native Texans (male) do not transpl...
NoJ0M0 - 21 in The Common Room
Prompt – . Things I always did with my mom when I was little . H-mm-m-m This is a little harder. Please remember that I loved my Momma and she loved me. It’s just that she found me to be such a ...
NoJoMo 20 -- in The Common Room
Prompt – Things I always did with my dad when I was small . . . Lived Loved Laughed Learned Built Sang Silly Ditties Invented (or re-invented) Discussed Identified Tried to understand ..not just...
