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Jessie’s 79th by
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Prompted By Special Birthdays

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Jessie’s 79th Like most kids I had a yearly birthday party,   and then like many girls of my generation a Sweet Sixteen. In later years we had a wonderful celebration for my son’s 13th birthday at his bar mitzvah.   (see Ghostwriting in the Family) And later a fun party for my husband’s 60th at…
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The Vow by
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(All my poetry encompasses ‘Affairs of the Heart’, This is a sad one.)   Somehow we knew  we were never right for each other And yet we allowed the pageantry to proceed, I in the bridal gown of my dreams you, in a slightly small tuxedo choking you at the throat.   I remember you…
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Can’t Bust ‘Ems by
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Prompted By What We Wore

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I still own a pair of black Can’t Bust ‘Em dungarees that I wore while working as a timber cutter at the Buckshot mine in Eldora, Colorado. I don’t wear them anymore — I’m a little beyond a 1970 waistline — but the rugged old pants still sport the brass buttons sewn onto the beltline…
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A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You by
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Prompted By Forgiveness

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This is a story about a time that I tried to forgive and did such a bad job of it that I ruined the friendship entirely.
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Mr. Pebbles by
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Mr. Pebbles  was a Soviet Space Cat who became the first animal in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Mr. Pebbles, a stray cat from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957. Little was known about…
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Scammed! by
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Prompted By Hacked!

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Scammed! I thought I was pretty smart but the scammers out there are even smarter! A few years ago I got a call telling me my Verizon bill was overdue and my cell phone service would soon be discontinued. I thought I’d paid that bill and could easily have checked,  or  I could have hung up…
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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by
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Prompted By The First Time

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This song demanded that I write about it
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Passover Present and Past by
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When we got to reciting the ten plagues during our Zoom seder, I know all of us were thinking about an eleventh one that kept us apart this year.
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Fireworks Behind the Scenes by
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Prompted By Fireworks

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Get paid to blow things up?? He was in!
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Three Noahs by
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Prompted By What's in a Name

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Noah R,  Noah G,  and Noah L Three Noahs As you may know it’s traditional in Jewish families to give children the names or initials of loved-ones who have died.   And so when we were expectant parents we planned to name the baby after my late father-in-law whose name was Naftali. My woman’s intuition…
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