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UK Adventure 2018

I’m finally getting around (well, unless something else strikes my fancy and I head off upon yet another rabbit trail), to organizing the many pictures from our UK Adventure 2018 (yep that’s its official title.)   Below is Lincoln Cathedral. Isn’t

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Reading, Writing, & Book Group

What I’m reading, what my book group is reading, and all other things reading related. First up – here’s a new book I’d like to recommend, A Year of the Monkeys! A fantastic new anthology filled with tales glorious, wild,

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Philistines & Tumbling Chimneys

This happened several years ago.   Yesterday our chimney fell off the roof. Technically I suppose it’s a stove pipe. I like the word chimney better. I remember reading Agatha Christie’s The Secret of Chimneys years ago & deciding Chimneys

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Of Wildfire, Woodpeckers, & Tomatoes

For Today September 14, 2018 Looking out my window Another too warm day, just a bit windy. We keep watching the firefighters on the ridge behind us putting out “hot spots” from yesterday’s fire Yet another fire, started by a

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Sundays

Sundays: via ten(ish) year intervals.Two Pages.Church, singing, the collection plate. From which I kept back one quarter, no doubt intending to spend it upon wanton and tooth-rotting delicacies, only to discover it gone, hours later from my Sunday Purse and

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Kicking Ordinary Time’s Butt

  The final bits of Christmas have been tucked away, quietly awaiting autumn’s return. And yes the house is darker. With a Settled Focus upon work at hand, though oddly enough our voices often seem loud, a bit strained at the

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Summer: The Harlot of the Seasons

  Crap. There is but a week remaining of January and I’m sorry. I love January and feel positive it’s gotten a bum rap over the years from too many people. You’ve heard them, with their talk of “post-holiday blues”.

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Questions Slated For The After Life, or, Why All Boxelder Beetles Should DIE

Boxelder Beetles invade Witt’s End every few seasons. They are the most unnecessary and repulsive of bugs. (Their scientific name is Boisea trivittata. They are of the Order of True Bugs. Google it if you must, though I warn you:

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Blunt-Edged Magic

This is Blunt-Edged Magic. (two pages) I continue writing stuff no one will ever read. Words stretching into sentences stretching into paragraphs and on. Building page after page till I’ve created – what? I dunno. You see: my fingers hit

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Thoughts On Recovering From Pneumonia

  A Day Spent Recovering From Pneumonia: Call doctor office for various med refills. Load and start dishwashers. (N.B. That last bit is surprisingly important. Place yellow sticky note informing myself of such on fridge.) Take Rory and friend to choir. Retreat to

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