It’s all about me
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Some friends and I recently attended a four week Forensics Camp through the Rock Valley College Continuing Education program. They sucked me in by appealing to my authorial sense of wonder. As in, I wondered how I could work these scientific details into a story! Every Tuesday for four weeks, my friends and I met
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As I’m sure you know, I am an observer, a watcher, a witness to the weird. I had an experience last week that surely qualifies. Wednesday.Start our day, fridge works fine. Later, the fridge is being weird. The screen says 56, none of the options (ice, water, etc) are available, the lights in both refrigerator
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Contemporary Relevance…the idea that a word, phrase, or cultural reference is no longer broadly understood. This subject has come up a lot lately. For instance, we were watching a show where they said, Kumbaya. With origins dating back to 1926, this word has come in and out of popularity with the meaning evolving over decades
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That’s right! I’m jumping on the bandwagon! I believe my blogs should be part of your morning routine. Alas, only weekly, but there’re plenty to pick from if you’d like to make Blogdle-ing a daily event. I am an original UK Wordler (six tries, one word), a NYT Wordler (six tries, one word), a Nerdler
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Please note, this is NOT a post about losing an hour. That was my favorite hour! And now it’s gone. Just *poof* gone. This is a post about springing ahead, though. About sloughing off the last vestiges of winter (if winter is a metaphor for the last two years) and breaking through with hope, growth,
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We attended the Simon & Garfunkel Story at the Coronado Theater recently. We had great seats, courtesy of our daughter, and struck up a conversation with the couple next to us (with almost equally great seats, but no aisle). They had driven in from Woodstock and were curious about where to eat next time they
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But I heard there were some commercials! As a Chicago Bears Football Fan, the season has been over for weeks (months), but it’s tradition to watch the Super Bowl in hopes of seeing how the game should be played. I actually watch for the commercials. I’ve been known to keep track of the best Super
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My correspondence closing of choice has been “Take Care & Enjoy~” since the early 80’s and the passing of yearbooks. “Was great having you in Math class! Take Care & Enjoy~” “Stay cool this summer! Take Care & Enjoy~!” You get the idea. I’ve always liked my sign off signature because it summed things up
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Do you know who Dr. Rick is? If you’ve caught a commercial break lately, you probably do.Dr. Rick is the name of the character on the Progressive “Unbecoming your Parents” commercials. You know, the series with the youngish homeowners who need to comment on the parking situation and introduce themselves to the server because now
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I had a couple of readers ask me why I bothered to finish The Burnt House if I disliked it so much. Seems like a fair question. I have a multi-part response: First, I don’t read like I used to. There was a time I devoured books! A book on the night stand, a book
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