Suprise Me

Early to Bed, Early to Rise by
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Prompted By Dawn

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Maybe it’s our age, but here we are, no longer needing to get up at dawn but set in our ways.
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Fixing A Hole by
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Prompted By Home Repair

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Someone had to fix the holes the plumbers made, not to stop our minds from wandering, but to make the house look normal again.
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The Apocalypse by
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While visiting David in London in February, 2016, we took a train out to see Bletchley Park where Alan Turing and the “code breakers” developed the system to decipher the German codes during World War II, as depicted in “The Imitation Game”. Turing is considered one of the founders of modern computer science and we…
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I Had Hair Once, But I Used It Up by
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Prompted By Haircuts

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"Regular haircut?" "Yup." Made his day.
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Pandemic Generations Struggle Through Summer by
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Prompted By Pandemic Summer

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Our country has failed this generation of children whose lives will be forever defined by their experiences during the pandemic.
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When Women Do the Asking by
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Prompted By Leap Day

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I remember feeling passive and helpless when it came to dating.
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Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress by
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Mainly I remember my mother’s closet as a great place to play hide and seek. It was a big walk-in closet shaped like an L, so you could go around the corner to hide and a seeker might just look in the doorway and not see you. There was also a little door that led…
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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow by
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Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow was Bill Clinton's campaign song.
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Irresistible–but banned by
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Prompted By Banned Books

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It was the scrotum of a canine, not even that of a boy or a man that got this award-winning book banned from certain schools and libraries.
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Belle & Zalman by
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My mother’s parents came from Bialystock, still part of Russia when they met in 1902. I have a fancy dress from Grandma’s trousseau that she brought over on the ship. My mother was always proud that her family came over second-class, not steerage. My grandparents married in 1902 and were successful. She had a maid…
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