Imagine if my umbilical cord had not been cut many years ago! I love cutting the modern day cord, why? Portability: I can access the internet anywhere within range of a router and without cables. Ease of setup: We can set up a wireless network without having to run wires or drill holes. Flexibility:…
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Suprise Me
I Love Progress
Prompted By Cutting the Cord
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Imagine if my umbilical cord had not been cut many years ago! I love cutting the modern day cord, why? Portability: I can access the internet anywhere within range of a router and without cables. Ease of setup: We can set up a wireless network without having to run wires or drill holes. Flexibility:…
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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Prompted By Buttons, Pins, and Badges
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Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow was Bill Clinton's campaign song.
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And in the End
Prompted By Beatles vs Stones
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The Beatles break-up began in 1969, the year I graduated from high school. I wished it weren’t so, but it was inevitable that they would go their separate ways, just as it was inevitable that high school would end, and everything would change.
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Cadaver Lab
Prompted By Science
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New Year in Nara
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From my files: A Japanese ritual: emotion, laughter, love and union.
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The End of the World, part two
Prompted By 9/11 Twenty Years Later
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In the last eighteen months, there have been so many tragedies that I couldn't even say which was the worst.
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7th Grade Science Fair
Prompted By Science
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Though always a good student, the arts and literature were my bailiwick. I had to work hard at math and science to get good grades. Thus, when Mr. Perkins, who I had for 7th and 8th grade science, announced that we all had to do a project for the Science Fair, I struggled for an…
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Dear Charlie…
Prompted By Letter to My Younger Self
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I’m writing to you from a time far beyond your own.
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Joy and Arthur
Prompted By An Unforgettable Person
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Written in response to Joy and Addis
Hi, I came across your story of Joy and Arthur quite by chance after a random google search. I married my childhood sweetheart in 1968 at St Mark’s Church on the Overcliffe Gravesend Kent England. We met when she was sixteen and I was seventeen. We only had until 1988 when she sadly died. Her…
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Shy Child
Prompted By Lessons
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I was so shy, I was a skirt-hugger. I loved to play with my dolls, the kids in my neighborhood and was dazzled by the performing arts. My first love was ballet and I started lessons at the age of seven. With flat feet and a sickly constitution, I wasn’t very good, and often missed…
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