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.... you’ve been so good to me lately. I’m grateful. The river today was so full of birds - ducks and geese and swans. The bridge across at Lansing is growing across from both sides to mee...

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is/was Saturday. Last Saturday in the third month of 2026. Well, we got here. I feel pretty safe. The world is going all to hell. Best thing I discovered today was that Willie Nelson be...

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Gately now simply blows through Inman, heading for B&C over on the upscale northwest side nearer to Harvard, every light suddenly green and kind, the Adventura’s ten-cylinder backwash raisin...

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I meant to make this private and come back and add some text. I just came back and saw it was public. Oh well. I’m not a huge fan of Stephen King. I’ve read a few of his books and ...

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For the last month or so I’ve been buying groceries on Thursdays. I kind of like having a set day to do it. It gives me a reason to know what day it is, all week though. Reason it’s Thursd...

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It’s just a little book, a Penguin paperback, slim and unassuming. But inside the second page, facing the title and author’s name - Edna O’Brien, Some Irish Loving, in a strong male hand, the i...

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.... has its new set of tires. They cost somewhere around $800. Most of you know why the twenty or so year old Chevy 2500/three quarter ton, former U.S. Forest Service truck has that name… bu...

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.... when Open Diary was still going, I used to take writing more seriously. I would check the calendar to see how many days I’d written in a given month, and if I hadn’t written almost every d...

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I tend to do that. Wait till the last minute. A cousin to procastination. I’ve got a couple books to tell you about. One is Headhunters by Jo Nesbo. Book itself is a little ‘Now a majo...

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.... if I could write every day. Not necessarily much, but a little. I like to do things or at least think of doing things for a month at a time. There are eleven days left in this month. ...

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transcribed from my bed notebook. It’s getting light. Another day. Opportunity. (word I can’t read, looks like ‘theat’) Retribution. I need to pee. And see if the dog ran amok. Brush...

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I left a note - Funny how our lives are similar and different of course too. We had beautiful snow, I had both my kids, I wrote in my notebook, not productively of course. Seems like I live ha...

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.... please watch this. I’ll try to come back and talk about it.

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Here is a link to a speech given by the Canadian prime minister: I don’t know how many of you have heard it. I don’t know how many of you will be able to see it. It is a very good speech.

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I woke up this morning. I read a bit from the sad Nobel literature prize book. The book itself is sad. It’s a biggish paperback, perhaps a college text, that’s been well read and is almost in ...

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1-3-26 (a few left over from 2025) Onward and Upward - A Biography of Katharine S. White - Linda H. Davis - 1987 White was fiction editor of The New Yorker for many years. Nice, nice s...

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… when I woke up this morning. A very sorry, beaten up, loosely paged paperback of The Hamlet has been in my bed library for some time now. Last summer I started it, intently meaning to read i...

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We got a luxury for my husband. It was a satellite TV setup. We paid a lot and continued to pay since nothing was free and we were too dumb to cheat. Part of what was good was the CBC. Can...

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I courted death in many ways. There was trip through Rosebud Reservation at sunset in the backseat of the ‘55 Chevy when I3 years old, and I firted with the idea that I could just die. I some...

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There is so little to measure against. I wake up. The sun is getting ready to come up. I read a bit of James Clavell’s Noble House yesterday. He’s the guy who wrote Shogun which I’ve never rea...

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The sun is up. The house is filling up with light. Ava got me up. She came in my bedroom wanting to chew my feet. I got up and tried to make her go outside. I opened the door to the dec...

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Third Thursday of the month is library book sale. I haven’t been there in maybe going on a year. I haven’t been inside any kind of a book store since before I had surgery - before May. I’m ...

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If there is - and I tend to be an optimist and I WANT to believe there is a way to disagree without breaking up a friendship. Except there doesn’t seem to be. Right here - I have lost friends...

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