Hmmmm. Back to school. A topic fraught with pride, expectation, a little fear, and a sense of inevitablility. All I can convey to you is my experience from my not so typical perspective on the subject. Some background. My daughter Elizabeth and I are unusually close. I had her late in life, an only...
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While attending your average summer party, a rising college sophomore like myself will be asked the same two questions perpetually throughout the evening: One, “How was your first year at college?” and two, “are you excited to be going back to school?”. In an attempt to spare my acquaintance from the bursting floodgates of...
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Fences! This picture needs a caption! Write a caption and maybe win a prize! Please send this link to all your friends, maybe one of them will win! Let’s see what captions, you all can come up with for this one! People love the prize, give it a try, anyone could win, why not...
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Well, here I am ,writing again! I have learned to love writing, and I do not obsess over it. I hope people like what I write and want to read it, but, if they don’t what can you do! Obsessing over it isn’t going to make people read what I have to write or...
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An interesting bit of LoGo trivia… I was not aware of these things…guess I’ll have to start watching logo’s more carefully. If you look at the center of this logo, you can see two people enjoying a Tostitos chip with a bowl of salsa. This logo conveys an idea of people connecting with each...
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• Maya has a constellation of beauty marks on her shoulder They seem gathered together subtly, they could be bolder • Her reserved non-talking stares and smiles confirm her happiness The cats are afraid of her, maybe they know more about the constellation • Is it a galaxy where life is filled with sunshine...
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For 13 years, I’ve made sure that my son’s birthday was celebrated big, spending weeks planning a theme party and fun activities for him and his friends. For his first birthday, we had the Singing Library Lady come to our house, play her guitar and sing “Wheels on the Bus,” “There Was an Old...
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I started listening to this guy and his band in 1970. They were doing stuff that was magic to my ears, and it still is. I never tire of it and if it is some show that I have never heard, I love finding it and hearing it. “They’re a band beyond description,” the...
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M. – The Criterion Blu-ray Edition | Director Fritz Lang | Score: 9.4 A luminous masterwork from Fritz Lang. The story of a child murderer let loose upon an unnamed German city is less about heroes and villains than it is an examination of the basic laws of society in the face of what...
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It’s 2:06 on 202 in Flemington Heading north Life is short • A truck with marble Made in Spain Passes me Life is short • The tractor dealer’s parking lot is empty • The American Flags At the car dealerships Used to wave much larger Life is short ••• Books on Poetry at Amazon!
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