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My mother's handwriting & January 3, 1961
January 3, 1961 - 10:15 P.M. - Desk Today was a pretty big day. School isn’t really too bad after all. During English class we were to write a piece of creative writing. I wrote on ‘1961 The U...
My house and Sassy
Does anyone remember Sassy Brujur - that might have been her name, it might not have been. She was a great Open Diary-er, an Englishwoman living in Spain. She had a guest house and she was alw...
Peanut butter and crackers
If Gracie could be human one night And I could lie on the floor waiting If Gracie had hands that could spread The peanut butter and offer it to me I’d ask for another and another again And she wo...
today
Have a cow... and her friends
These are at away pasture. Jim says they come home Monday. I will have to help. Wish me luck. Wish Jim luck. Wish the cows luck. Thanks for all that luck wishing. ps I like cows when t...
Three things, approaching midnight, a week into September
I got out of bed to fire up the computer, to look for youtubes. It’s cold enough for socks, an extra sweatshirt and a stocking cap. I left Annie’ Proulx’s Wyoming stories in my bed. They mak...
My friend, Archie the Suffolk.....
..... posted this on Twitter this morning. It’s Friday. The sun is coming up. I think I have to go to town today.
Three things -
The mail is back. I sent Katie and someone else letters. I feel kind of neutral about the death of Queen Elizabeth II. I’d really like a walk and nobody or nothing is stopping me. Fir...
One grandson and two other things
I miss my diet Pepsi. In the last selkie movie “Ondine”, the main character was trying not to drink and there wasn’t an Alcoholics Anonymous in his town, so he would go the priest in the con...
Ok guys...
… do me a favor, please. Tell me why you don’t like Updike. Emphasis on why/what you don’t like. Thanks greatly.
Good Day
Thank you all for your good (and otherwise) advice. I compiled it for my writer’s group and it was popular. The ‘don’t gain more than 5 lbs after marriage’ got a laugh. I have leftover...
I'm grateful for ....
Beautiful perfect weather. More time with Gracie. Beef stew.
Ideas? Input? All welcome
Next week’s writing topic is best/worst advice you’re gotten from a parent or other adult. After some thought, all I’ve got is: My dad telling me to leave the car in second gear till I got to t...
What's more important?
loyalty? or variety?
More Rodney - young this time
He was Cash’s soninlaw. Roseanne’s hubby. Somebody left somebody. Oh and one more. I associate this song with Waylon.... but it’s Rodney’s. End of this one above has an L-shaped piano. H...
God, I love men
https://imgur.com/gallery/NPd1n2L I didn’t search for this. I found it totally by accident.
Going 55....
In the spring of 1969, my husband bought a 1968 Olds Dynamic 88, dark gray 4 door, a monster of a car, beautiful, tricked out and tricky. How we had enough money to buy a year old ‘luxury’ car ...
Beauty is this thing
Jim just had me go across the creek and up in the clearing to bring back Joana’s pickup. We went in the side by side thingie - I wore my seat belt. The sun had set and left this exquisite blu...
Advice
Have you ever thought of giving someone/someone here advice without being asked? Or even if asked? I know it’s never welcome. But sometimes it just looks like people have blind spots. It l...
I guess those of us who had our abortions when it was legal are the lucky ones.
One of the last holidays of the year
Today’s his birthday. He’s 78 if he’s still alive. I have a mutual friend I ask about him but the last few times the friend hasn’t had anything to say about him. I have a phone number that I ...
ipg
Ideas Plans Goals Well what about them? I have no ideas. I have almost no plans. I definitely have no goals. There that takes care of that. What do I have? Cats. Potato chip crumbs. Bad hair. A f...
I need/want your opinion
For the last five years or perhaps longer, every summer the Bible is read on our county courthouse lawn. It takes a whole weekend. It gives me the creeps. Every year I want to protest it. ...
I keep losing...
… things. I wonder if I gain anything at all. It’s that point in life, I suppose. That time when you see what’s gone, not what’s here. Days pile up. Some in front, more behind. The one that c...
Stolen treasure
Someone posted a different version of this song today. Then I looked up the lyrics. The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the gi...
Book Description
Just a few words that don’t mean anything.
