Suprise Me
Damn you, autocorrect!
Prompted By Spelling
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Tornado Warning
Prompted By Dating
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Neither rain, snow, sleet, nor gloom of night was going to deter us from our planned movie date.
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A New Hope
Prompted By Pandemic, Year Three
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She rings up the order. She is not wearing a mask. I am not wearing a mask.
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Foiled by Finkel and Foyle
Prompted By Senior Moments
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I knew I'd crossed a threshold when I drew my first real blank on a name.
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Expect the Unexpected
Prompted By Graduation Advice
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I recently witnessed a highly successful businessman query a 20-something about her background, her upbringing and her 5-year plan. I remember a mentor telling me to make a 5-year plan. I can assure you, things never worked out as I anticipated. I always loved the arts, my degree is in Theatre Arts and I have…
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IBS and Then Some
Prompted By Illness
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It came on with no warning in mid-March of 2003…unrelenting diarrhea, sometimes several times a day. After a few weeks, I visited my doctor who ordered tests of my upper and lower GI tract. All unpleasant, but proved normal. Not meaning to be too graphic, but I had never been “regular”, and would have occasional…
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The Oddest Ocean View
Prompted By Hotels, Motels, Inns, and Hostels
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So it went for most of the night, and it was impossible to sleep. Instead of an ocean view room, we had an ocean.
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
Prompted By Drive-Ins
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One might think that drive-ins would be a big thing in the Motor City, since Detroit was the birthplace of the car culture, but I have only one memory of going to a drive-in movie. As a youngster, the whole family piled into my dad’s Imperial. He owned a Chrysler dealership and always had the…
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On This Winter’s Night With You
Prompted By Dangerous Deeds
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Early in the relationship, back when we were both freshman college students, back in New Jersey, my First Love’s parents decided, for various reasons, to hate me. Virulently.
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