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Homage to Three Computers by
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(298 Stories)

Prompted By My First Computer

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It wasn’t until 2006 that I actually bought a computer for myself, my beloved iMac-7.1.
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The Other Changing of the Guard by
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Prompted By Inaugurations

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Past inaugurations have also brought dramatic changes in approaches to governing.
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All That Jazz by
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(346 Stories)

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All That Jazz We both grew up in classical music-loving families,  and still keep our radio set to WQXR,  though admittedly we seldom go to classical concerts or opera.  And as children of the 50s we love rock & roll,  and doo wop, and folk and country,  and of course the Beatles and the Stones…
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Revising the Editor by
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(30 Stories)

Prompted By Something Wild

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Revising the editor Limits, rules, restrictions, guidelines, walls, trigger my auto-response of arising fierce Kali-spirit that demands the shaking off of the yoke burdening my shoulders, spitting out the bit between my teeth, severing the ball and chain cutting into my ankle, and pulling the barbed wire from around my throat, to run wildly into…
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Top Ten Pet Peeves by
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(298 Stories)

Prompted By Pet Peeves

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I forget what #10 was. Getting harder to remember stuff.
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Proud Mama by
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(359 Stories)

Prompted By Baby Books

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I had a somewhat tortured gynecological history (never regular periods, an ectoptic pregnancy in 1981, leaving me with one working Fallopian tube, followed nine months later, with the same IUD in place – the doctor never told me to remove it – by another pregnancy which Dan and I chose to abort for health reasons),…
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April 19, 1995: Oklahoma’s Day of Infamy by
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Prompted By Danger

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Twenty-eight years ago this week, danger came in the form of domestic terrorists striking Oklahoma City.
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The End of the Innocence by
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(302 Stories)

Prompted By Assassination

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On this particular November Friday, we were sitting in home ec class learning how to make salad dressing.
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Bike Stories by
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(298 Stories)

Prompted By Riding a Bicycle

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I have no memory of learning to ride an actual bike.
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Martha My Dear by
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(90 Stories)

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"It was bashert," she used to say, using the Yiddish word for destiny
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