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Category Archives: I Remember When… (my OWN stories)
Memories and vignettes, true stories old or recent.
“Dead Air,” The Results — Week 1
Last time, I told you about the radio station where my friend works, and how their computerized broadcast lineup served as a visual aid to help me grasp the foreign concept of “planning.” Motivated, I vowed to make up a … Continue reading →
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Dead Air
A couple of weeks ago, toward the tail end of digging-out-from-under-a-million-peaches season, I offered a little bag of peaches to my old high-school friend Kevin. Well, more accurately, I sneaked over to the radio station where he works and tried … Continue reading →
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Digging Out
It’s happened again… A busy summer full of family graduations, weddings, helping kids move hither and yon, travel, cycling, not finding time to write because I’m trying to get ready for writers’ groups (what’s up with that??) — and right … Continue reading →
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Tagged abundance, busy, busyness, fruit, harvest, peaches, produce, yard work
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All’s Fair in Lunch and War
If I like a particular food, I could eat it twice a day for a week and be fine. Brent? Not so much. With that in mind, check out these excerpts from my menu diary, then you tell me which … Continue reading →
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A Throwback Mother’s Day
Don’t expect a regular sort of post from me this week. Sunday was Mother’s Day–the strangest one I have experienced. From the birth of the first child, we parents all know our goal is to “work ourselves out of the … Continue reading →
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Suspiciously Healthy
I don’t know what it is — every time I form a healthy new habit, I turn right around and run afoul of the authorities, or at least embarrass myself in front of them. My readers might recall the time … Continue reading →
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Tagged Army, disorganized, forgetful, Ft. Hood, gym, health, healthy, humor, ID, identification, identity, memory, military, national security, post, security, workout
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