Suprise Me
Ahh…Cartoons
Prompted By Cartoons
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Leaving Home
Prompted By Home
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At some point, almost everyone experiences leaving home.    
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                  Outpatient
Prompted By Refugees
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Outpatient The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is heartbreaking as millions flee their homes and we watch helplessly on the TV news. At the turn of the 20th century,  with the Jewish influx of the time,  both my maternal and paternal grandparents emigrated to the States from Eastern Europe,  my father’s parents from Ukraine. They all…    
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                  New Year’s Tradition
Prompted By The New Year
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  We learned long ago that going out on New Year’s Eve was just something we didn’t want to do. Everything was overpriced and you always ran the risk of drunk drivers on the road. So we stayed in with friends and cooked. When David was a baby, I had a few couples over and…    
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                  Where Have All the Snow Days Gone?
Prompted By Snow Day
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I don’t remember snow days when I was in school. That’s because school never closed for snow or cold winter days. We had warm hats, scarves, mittens, boots, and snowsuits. Think Ralph’s little brother in A Christmas Story. And we walked to and from school. So, it’s no surprise that I pulled my three little…    
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                  Your Major is a Tool Set, NOT a Pre-Packaged Solution
Prompted By College Majors as Career Gaugers
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Anger and Guns — A Toxic Mix
Prompted By Danger
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This is so not the world I had hoped to leave for my grandkids. It’s definitely time for a new generation to take over.    
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                  We have met the Enemy–Retroflash
Prompted By 9/11 Twenty Years Later
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It is not foreign terrorists who invaded the US Capitol, corrupted democracy, attacked the press, blocked voting, tried to install an unelected autocrat, attacked public health, imposed punishments with religious zealotry against women, or damaged the rule of law.    
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                  Dentist!
Prompted By The Dentist
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Steve Martin’s role as the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors captured how many of us feel about going to the dentist.    
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                  An Ode to Surrogate Mothers
Prompted By Generation Gap
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“Don’t trust anyone over 30!” I remember the phrase well, but somehow, though I did some eye-rolling back in the day at things my parents said, I never embraced the philosophy. My parents were the babies of their respective families and were 39 when I was born. I am the youngest in a large generation…    
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