Who are you? Is the you you think you know authentic? Do you examine who you are, the portrait you portray, the person we’ve all come to know and believe it’s you? Can you fly yet? Does your consciousness expand on every level? Can you slither through solid walls manipulating your molecules? Can…
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Suprise Me
The Shape Shifter
Prompted By Imitation
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Who are you? Is the you you think you know authentic? Do you examine who you are, the portrait you portray, the person we’ve all come to know and believe it’s you? Can you fly yet? Does your consciousness expand on every level? Can you slither through solid walls manipulating your molecules? Can…
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C’est Cheese Retroflash
Prompted By Group Photos
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Won't you please move closer? Now, say, "Cheese"!
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The $64,000 Question
Prompted By Quiz and Game Shows
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Who was Harold Mendelson? He’s a guy who grew up in the Fillmore District of San Francisco and went on to become a famous actor and game show host. He was also a lifelong buddy of my father’s. You never heard of Harold? But does the name Hal March ring a bell? Even though he…
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Easy Reader
Prompted By What We Read
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One of my favorite things to do when I was a kid: Grab a book and climb a tree and read until someone came looking for me.
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Brake Padding
Prompted By Hacks and Scams
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I suspect that had I fallen for the Mavis scam they would have done nothing and billed me for brake replacement.
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“Got A Cigarette?”
Prompted By The ER
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I remember seeing a policewoman in the open doorway.
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A Life Devoted to Protesting for Justice: Marcy Wiersch Johnson
Prompted By Protests
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They were marching partly as a tribute to Marcy, a woman whose life embodied so much of what protests and activism had accomplished to advance the cause of social justice.
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Prompt and Circumstance
Prompted By Reconnecting
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(T)he point of these reminiscences isn’t a specific memory, it’s about the conversations that ensue about those memories.
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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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