When I graduated from college, I was pretty sure I wanted to go to law school eventually, but I was VERY sure that I wanted to take some time off from school first. I was sick of writing papers and taking exams and always having some assignment hanging over my head to make me feel…
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Suprise Me
Nine to Five
Prompted By Working
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When I graduated from college, I was pretty sure I wanted to go to law school eventually, but I was VERY sure that I wanted to take some time off from school first. I was sick of writing papers and taking exams and always having some assignment hanging over my head to make me feel…
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Did You Ever Have to Make up Your Mind?
Prompted By The Road Not Taken
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It was 1974, and after two years of working at the US Department of Transportation, I was ready to quit my job and go to law school. I had applied to several schools on the East Coast, as well as UC Berkeley and two other California schools that I didn’t know much about. Those last…
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Soapy Masterpieces
Prompted By Guilty Pleasures
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One guilty pleasure I share with my husband is PBS Masterpiece Theater serials
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“In the rooms of her ice-water mansion”
Prompted By One Song That Moves Me
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"Within the songs are found our hopes, fears, challenges ... and even our desired potential."
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With This Ring
Prompted By Lost and Found
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With This Ring I’m not superstitious or especially sentimental, and that’s a good thing because over the years I’ve lost some precious pieces of jewelry – two or three watches, innumerable earrings, and even a few wedding rings. When we married my husband gave me a simple band – not of gold or silver but…
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Groundhog Day
Prompted By Pandemic, Year Three
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As Yogi Berra supposedly said, “It's déjà vu all over again.”
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Good Enough
Prompted By Perfection
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I’m one of those people who gets a task 95% completed and decides it is good enough.
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Prinderella and the Cince
Prompted By Favorite Fairy Tale
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I loved fairy tales as a young girl. I remember that I was reading “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” when I fell ill during the summer of 1964 and spent a week in the infirmary. I was 11 years old, had thrown up during Sunday morning services, (Our Father, who art in Heaven…blechhh…). The whole camp used…
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My Comments on the “Procrastination” Stories
Prompted By Procrastination
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The red cubes glow like fox eyes.