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Monthly Archive for November, 2010

Peace Has Been Declared: The End of Franticy as I Know It? 30 November 2010 Yesterday’s news: 1) My “new” car needs work to the tune of at least $1100; 2) I don’t have “that kind of money” (interesting phrase we use); 3) I’m not panicked and have mostly stayed in a posture of observation [...]

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And hey, thanks! (You’re welcome) 24 November 2010 Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States of North America and I’m musing about the “thanks” word. For some years now, I’ve been noticing that an expression of thanks to another person is seldom met with the response I grew up hearing, which was always, [...]

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When Worlds Collide, 13 November 2010 It’s 11 p.m. and I’m sipping a large cup of hot “Calm” tea (I do miss real tea, what we call “sweet tea” in the South). And I’m wishing I were instead inhaling apple pie and ice cream (Breyer’s Vanilla Bean, with maybe a fried baloney sandwich afterward – [...]

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Soul Notes, The Devil You Know, 8 November 2010 In the just-before-daylight hours of October 28, with the almost-dark as my very still companion, I sat in bed with my notebook barely able to see the page in front of me. I wrote without looking down while “feeling” that the lines my words were creating [...]

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