The moaning whine infiltrated my nightmares for years. It became a reminder of a situation we could not ignore.
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Suprise Me
Shelters, Signs, and Sirens
Prompted By Cold War Coping
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The moaning whine infiltrated my nightmares for years. It became a reminder of a situation we could not ignore.
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Sleeping Arrangements
Prompted By Training Pets
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Sleeping Arrangements What’s more fun than a new kitten? (See ASPCA) But they do require some serious training to show them who’s boss. So the day we brought Jackie home from the ASPCA we read him the house rules – don’t bite the hand that feeds you, keep your paws off the house plants, and…
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Fragrant Flashbacks
Prompted By Fragrant Flashbacks
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Oh!
Prompted By First Day of School
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Born Blue
Prompted By Politics
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My mother was a proud FDR Democrat and preached it at home. My father’s family grew up quiet Republicans, transplanted to Detroit from St. Louis. We never got him to admit who he voted for in 1960, but he became more liberal as he aged. I was not quite four years old during the 1956…
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My Pink Dress
Prompted By Lost and Found
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The Pink Dress None of this was supposed to happen: not finding the dress, not losing the dress, and certainly not finding it again. But that’s what did happen. In the days before you could make online reservations, my husband used the services of a trusted travel agent for his business trips and some…
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And That’s the Way It Is … Or Was
Prompted By Broadcast News
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My first memory of broadcast news is the image of my mother madly ironing while watching something on television that clearly angered her, the Army-McCarthy hearings. I was just a kid and thus she never explained to me why she kept watching this when it was clearly upsetting her. I guess my grandkids could wonder…
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Avocation, Delusion, Masturbation
Prompted By Why We Write
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Organize your Cave*
Prompted By Inequality
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"We must all swim in the same sea. Right?”
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Hair was my rebellion!