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Centered by
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Prompted By My Hometown

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Our town was a very very very fine town
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Aging Ain’t for Sissies by
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Prompted By Aging

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On my 70th birthday my brother welcomed me to my eighth decade! While he was accurate, that declaration gave me pause. The summer after my senior year in high school I was in a local show, written, directed and produced by friends (including two who went on to conceive MyRetrospect decades later). There was some…
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Vax Thrill by
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Prompted By Vaccination

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At his mid-afternoon press briefing on Wednesday, February 17, Governor Baker announced that anyone over the age of 65 would be eligible for vaccination the next day. The roll-out had gone badly so far, with only health care workers, first responders and those over the age of 75 being eligible to receive vaccinations and many…
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The Purloined Passport by
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Prompted By Senior Moments

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The Purloined Passport I pride myself on being organized,  in fact organizing became my second career!   (See Second Career) And altho I would tell my organizing clients to keep important documents in a desk or file cabinet,  for some reason I always kept my own passport in my dresser drawer. Several years ago our…
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Deception by
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Prompted By Honesty

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The lies we told each other—and ourselves.
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Catching the Waves by
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Prompted By Beaches

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"It's really a blast," I wrote in my travel diary. That was high praise in 1966.
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Waiting Rooms by
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Prompted By Waiting Rooms

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My earliest experiences with waiting rooms were rather non-existent.  That is to say, at 3, my parents rushed me to the ER when my pinky finger was tightly lodged in the fold of a folding chair.  I remember the extraordinary pain and leaving with a splint on the finger.  If I waited, I know it…
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My Holiday Letter by
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Prompted By Holiday Letters

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Well, another year has rolled over and threatens to play dead. Congrats to all who survived to read this —you’ve lived long enough to cross into the netherworld between the second and third year of our worldwide pandemic. We haven’t lost too many friends. Most of us believe epidemiologists who deny that the wonder vaccine…
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The San Francisco Mime Troupe Gorilla Marching Band performs in the San Francisco Saint Patrick’s Day Parade by
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Prompted By Good Trouble

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...they didn’t request tapes or photos.
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Conscientious Objector by
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The wait seemed interminable, but the later our birthday was called, the less chance we had of being drafted.
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