Suprise Me

Fleshing out the memory by
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Prompted By Scouting

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You can learn a lot of things in scouting, and a few you just try to forget. Until it's time to shock your kids and grandkids.
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My Christmas Tradition (with Prologue) by
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Prompted By Holiday Letters

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I’ve missed my chance to take a walk today. Now it’s raining, and freezing, and the forecast says it’s only going to get worse.
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Why Do You Think They Call It “Dope”? by
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Prompted By Drugs and Alcohol

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Having never had a pot experience that was either pleasant or memorable, I just stuck to tried, true and non-felonious ethanol.
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We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars by
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Prompted By Science

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Whether Oscar Wilde or Chrissie Hind in “Message of Love,” said it, I have always found astronomy an escape into imagining the universe beyond our mortal realm.  I was able to get through physics and chemistry because of science teachers who truly loved their subject, but astronomy was the one that caught on for me.…
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Reciting by heart–and from the heart by
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Prompted By Brain Games

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As most language was eluding her, it was wonderful that she was able to profit from the memorization exercises of her childhood.
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Piano Man – Remembering Herb by
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Prompted By That Summer

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Piano Man – Remembering Herb My memories of that summer between college and grad school,  when I took a camp job with my friend Liz,  are bittersweet. Liz and I were co-counselors for a bunk of kids,  and I had also signed on as drama counselor.   When we arrived at camp I was introduced to…
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Bingeing Keeps me Sane by
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I fear I’m talking about what we find on television to pass the time as we head into our ninth month of the pandemic.
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On My Honor I Will Try! by
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Prompted By Scouting

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On My Honor I Will Try! I was never a Brownie – I don’t remember why,  I guess it was just another example of my parents’ negligence.  (See Tennis Woes) Instead,  when I was in 4th or 5th grade,   too old for Brownies,  they signed me up for Girl Scouts.   But most of…
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From Motown to E-town by
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Prompted By My Hometown

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Still, this is my hometown. I love it for the amazing people I have met here and its overall caring heart and beauty.
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They’ll Laugh Someday by
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Prompted By The Things I Keep

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Laughing through tears, I can tell you, is really a thing.
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