You never like that stove. You don’t know what it meant.
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Suprise Me
Stove
Prompted By Some Assembly Required
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You never like that stove. You don’t know what it meant.
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Richard to the Rescue
Prompted By Fads and Trends
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I made mental notes and subtle comparisons and contrasts between the Beatles, the Dave Clark 5, the Kinks, the Moody Blues, the Searchers, the Zombies. I
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Story Wranglers
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We’ve all known since we were little kids that there is magic in storytelling—in finding out what happens next.
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Scammed!
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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Sally’s authentic Woodstock photos and more
Prompted By Woodstock
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Woodstock, the original, and re-created
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Shy Child
Prompted By Lessons
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I was so shy, I was a skirt-hugger. I loved to play with my dolls, the kids in my neighborhood and was dazzled by the performing arts. My first love was ballet and I started lessons at the age of seven. With flat feet and a sickly constitution, I wasn’t very good, and often missed…
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Some bunch of kids, huh?
Prompted By Group Photos
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I especially like this photo of my aunt because it captures her sweetness.
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Maus
Prompted By Banned Books
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On May 10, 1933, university students burned more than 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square (pictured below). 40,000 people gathered to hear Nazi chief of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, make a speech in which he said, “No to decadence and moral corruption!” Sound familiar? This past January, the McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee…
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When Hated-Filled Bullying Replaces Hope and Change
Prompted By Bullying
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I want to put my grandkids in a bubble to keep them from seeing all of the hatred and bullying out there since Trump descended that golden escalator.
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