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With God on Their Side by
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Prompted By 9/11

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"...the faithful will fight forever, no matter the cost."
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No FOMO for me! by
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Prompted By Spring Break

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Back before FOMO was a thing, it never dawned on me to do anything on “spring break.” Now, what do we think about when we think about spring break anyway? Off to the beach or the slopes, depending–right? College or high school kids up to no good, shenanigans and high jinks that these days are…
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The Show by
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One of the mothers made these costumes. Yes, I still have mine.
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So, What Happened to The Overland Trail? by
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Prompted By Writer's Choice

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“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which…
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Ice Dams, Feb, 2015 by
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Prompted By Home Repair

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The winter of 2014-15 was the snowiest we remember in the Boston area with large storm followed by large storm. Then the sun came out, causing some melting of the snow on roof tops, giving way to terrible ice dams from the build up of snow on roofs. We learned the hard way how damaging…
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Comments On This Prompt by
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Prompted By Favorite Teacher

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I STILL cannot post comments on other people’s stories, so…. Comments on “Favorite Teacher” prompt. Educator of the Year – Remembering Milton by Dana Susan Lehrman A very evocative tale for me…my grade school had a Milton of its own, although he was the shop teacher, not custodial staff. Mr. Crawley never got full peer-to-peer…
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies by
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Prompted By Drive-Ins

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One might think that drive-ins would be a big thing in the Motor City, since Detroit was the birthplace of the car culture, but I have only one memory of going to a drive-in movie. As a youngster, the whole family piled into my dad’s Imperial. He owned a Chrysler dealership and always had the…
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Ribbon Barrettes by
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Prompted By Fads and Trends

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My pre-teen daughters spend hours weaving the ribbon in/out of the barrette, creating colorful patterns that match every outfit they own.
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Redd’s Sledd and the Imp Do Donuts by
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The cops stared, open-mouthed, at three 40-something bearded men and the motley trio of cars.
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What My Father’s Belt Told Me by (2 Stories)

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When I was about 10 years old a friend, Dougie, the neighborhood troublemaker, dared me to smoke a cigarette.
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