One can either greet the dawn or dread it.
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Suprise Me
A Geek in the Best Sense
Prompted By Aunts & Uncles
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Occasionally I'd hear strange noises emanating from his basement office. Sometimes a squeak, sometimes a series of booms.
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My Conkeydoodle
Prompted By Family Relationships
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My Conkeydoodle I’ve had many loving family relationships, and one of them was with Conkeydoodle. (See Call Me by Their Names) Conkeydoodle’s father Jack and my father Arthur were first cousins, so I guess that made me and Conkey second cousins – or maybe first cousins once removed, we never could quite figure that out.…
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Worth its Salt
Prompted By What I Own That's Older Than I Am
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... it is the only thing I have that belonged to grandma Rose.
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Stress and my Back Pain
Prompted By Stress
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Until the pandemic hit, the thing that caused me the most stress was my back pain.
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We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
Prompted By Science
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Whether Oscar Wilde or Chrissie Hind in “Message of Love,” said it, I have always found astronomy an escape into imagining the universe beyond our mortal realm. I was able to get through physics and chemistry because of science teachers who truly loved their subject, but astronomy was the one that caught on for me.…
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Smoke on the Water
Prompted By Fireworks
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Watching all those colorful explosions shooting through the sky just makes me happy.
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Of Shoes–and Ships–and Sealing Wax
Prompted By Poetry
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I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on my knife. --Gelett Burgess
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TV Made Me Who I Am
Prompted By What We Watched
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In the 60s and 70s our television was our hearth. My family gathered around the RCA black-and-white to watch together, and the next day most friends and neighbors would have watched the same shows. Today we make a big deal about how music was the key cultural touchstone of that era, but I’m not so sure. TV generally followed…
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Jackie
Prompted By Women We Admire
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The epitome of grace, class, and intelligence, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was, from the time I was very young, my idol. She married John F. Kennedy when I was a baby and she set about having babies too. She was married to JFK a mere 10 years and was pregnant five times, resulting in only…
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