Suprise Me

Arnold Palmer by
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Prompted By Lemons to Lemonade

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Something about the half lemonade and half tea ... symbolizes how so many of us are making do.
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Every Picture Tells A Story by
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Prompted By Group Photos

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My cousin recently sent me this picture, which I had never seen before, taken around 1925.
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Cold Comfort by
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Prompted By Comfort Food

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Summertime ambrosia.
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Birthday Bakers by
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Prompted By Birthdays

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Birthday Bakers Going to birthday parties has always been great fun for kids.   When I was young I’d wear a pretty party dress and my mother would take me to the birthday kid’s house,  with me proudly carrying the wrapped gift.   Then we’d put on paper hats,  play games,  and eat cake and ice…
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Laundry Day in London by
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Prompted By Laundry

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Laundry Day in London Remembering gentler times when we weren’t so wary of others and had more trust in the kindness of strangers,   I think about laundry day in London. In the early 1970s my husband Danny had the chance to work in that wonderful city for a year and we grabbed it.  I…
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Why am I still on Facebook? by
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"send cash" … or "send ash"
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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This by
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Prompted By Sleepy Time

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She captioned the needlepoint "Hobby Time" because when I was asked what my hobbies were, I generally said "sleeping."
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Bryce by
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Prompted By Something Wild

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We looked at Jupiter and its moons just before it set.
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Count Basie and Joe Williams at Birdland, 1956 by (3 Stories)

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He [Wiilliams] was a tall, striking man, and he had a distinctive trait when he sang: he didn't make gestures of any kind. Rather, he stood completely still, with his arms at his sides, and let his voice carry the message, and what a voice it was, strong and flexible, and he could do anything with it, even sing a few lines of Everyday in a near yodel.
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Tattoo Me by
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Prompted By Rites of Passage

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Because all appearances to the contrary, I tended to play it safe...
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