Gina's graduate student stipend was not really enough to live on. Certainly not well.
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Suprise Me
A Laundry Tale
Prompted By Laundry
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Gina's graduate student stipend was not really enough to live on. Certainly not well.
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Being 64
Prompted By Special Birthdays
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In a few days, I will become my grandmother. That’s Grandmother January (Annie Naomi Andrews January), who was sixty-four years old from the time I first knew her ‘til the day she died many years later.
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Never Forget
Prompted By 9/11 Twenty Years Later
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Never Forget Some of the things I witnessed in New York 20 years ago during that awful September week are seared in my memory and I’ll never forget. (See 9/11) The disbelief and horror as we watched TV news clips of a plane hitting the south tower of the World Trade Center, then the tower…
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Dickless Kenny and the Cul de Sac
Prompted By Parking
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I live on a cul-de-sac in the less extravagant environs of the HOLLYWOOD hills. Although the neighboring street rushes with traffic, our dead end remains quietly Mediterranean with its cypress trees and terra-cotta tiled roofs. In fact, the little street is so insignificant, we don’t have street-cleaning days, leaving only the 72-hour limit that applies…
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Broken Chain
Prompted By Chain Letters
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I didn't have a lot of friends in middle school, so I might have run out of friends to target for passing the letters along.
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Quiet, Please
Prompted By Pet Peeves
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Most frustrating is when someone asks, "What did they say?" and I can't hear the next few minutes of dialog.
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High Country
Prompted By Something Wild
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I had been swallowed by the perfect madness of the wilderness.
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A Eulogy for P-22, a Directionally Challenged Puma
Prompted By Directionally Challenged
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As with most mountain lions in our region, P-22 was born in the Santa Monica mountains, probably in 2010. As of 2016, the National Park Service had caught, collared, and released 12 pumas, male and female. They roam in the relatively wild areas of the Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area. There, protected by law,…
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Exciting Times On the Bayshore Freeway
Prompted By Close Calls
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The Year of the Crow
Prompted By One Year of the Pandemic
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After a couple of incidents this winter, I've concluded that I'd unconsciously adopted the successful survival strategies of the crow.
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