Did that woman know how her simple act of kindness turned our entire situation around?
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Suprise Me
The Gift to Be Simple
Prompted By Random Acts of Kindness
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Did that woman know how her simple act of kindness turned our entire situation around?
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What My Father Wrote for Me
Prompted By What My Father Told Me
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How and why my [grand]mother was cooking on a ranch in Montana in the summer of 1918 is one of the stories I shall never know...
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Redlines, artists, and mobsters
Prompted By My Hometown
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All seemed very normal in this town, as long as you stayed in your lane.
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One Small Droplet
Prompted By Why We Write
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My conclusion from this is that we, or many of us, write for the satisfaction of having our words survive the birth canal, and be launched into the stream of time.
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The Green Hornet
Prompted By My First Car
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As the family upgraded to newer, better cars, it got so I could drive the older one almost exclusively even though I wasn’t technically the owner. A two-tone green Cadillac that was old but didn’t exactly qualify as a beater became known as The Green Hornet. What a tank. It was like a couple of…
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Part of the Union
Prompted By Working
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Been Too Long at the Fair
Prompted By State or County Fair
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Despite the title, from a song I love, for me there is no such thing as being too long at the fair!
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Booms, Dust, and Pathogens
Prompted By 9/11 Twenty Years Later
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It started with a boom ... it continues with a global pandemic ...
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Dear Diary
Prompted By Manners
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My brother Larry is a real jerk, but he has really good manners. Whenever he spends time at a friend’s house, his friend’s mother calls to tell our mother how polite he is, and she has to announce it to the whole family. Personally, I think he’s just like Eddie Haskell. Last night on Leave…
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Mad Hatter
Prompted By Hats
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As a child, we wouldn’t do anything resembling Christmas decorations, but, for some reason, I always had a nice, new straw hat for spring. You might even call it an Easter bonnet. We didn’t celebrate Easter, of course. I remember one such hat was navy blue with an up-turned brim and a velvet ribbon band…
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