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 When I was about thirteen and at the height of self absorbed and self conscious early teen dom, my father brought home a school bus.  It was the standard issue yellow forty eight passenger variety.  The year was 1965, a much simpler time regarding/… Read full post »

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  “You’re not getting older, you’re getting better.”  Anyone around here remember that advertising slogan from the 70’s?  ‘Course not, that would mean we are getting old(er).  At the time my rejoinder was, if that&/… Read full post »

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  Here I am again, spending more ink, paper and time on a subject I consider troublesome and best ignored, Karl Rove.  The problem is, someone like Karl Rove can’t be ignored.

  What caught my eye this time was a reference o… Read full post »

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 So there I was Friday evening September 11th, 2009 headed south on one of my favorite Indiana two lanes on my way to my older daughter's liberal arts college campus which is located in a very unlikely small town in the middle of cornfields. … Read full post »

Grey and Gold by John Rogers Cox

1942

Cleveland Museum of Art

  It is high summer.  It comes every year right about this time.  Long hot muggy midwestern days, dark thunderheads loom on the horizon, rolling in during the late afternoon; creating a perfect backdrop for e/… Read full post »

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   I was pondering today, the unresolved feelings between my younger daughter and her ex boyfriend. (Or at least hers, his may be resolved to his satisfaction just fine.) To understand my concern, one must know that I am a big one for tying up loose ends.&nb… Read full post »

  I believe in an earlier post I referred to “the family idiot trip”.  A vacation, road trip, or travel plan in which anything can and will happen.  This is my favorite kind of travel. It   normally involves a destination of some sort (though th… Read full post »

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  Most high school graduates clean out their childhood room before leaving home for college.  I certainly did, however I had a coveted basement room (with a window providing egress to the outside) and sibblings lined up to take it.  College… Read full post »

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  Customer service.  I don’t know about you, but I find this phrase to be a bit of an oxymoron these days.  It’s a strange quaint phrase bringing to mind a simpler time and place, maybe Keokuk, Iowa, 1981.

 Customer service be… Read full post »

  It happened again recently.  I awoke from some far away place (I seem to inhabit them more and more frequently as I age) and realized I had made a decision for which there is no good explanation.  (I tend to disregard the &/… Read full post »

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Dearest Daughter,

No one tells you how to be a parent.  There are no operating instructions issued with each new baby.  No owner’s manual, tech support, or directions to follow. There is no toll free number at which you can reach a s/… Read full post »