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Dementia and Cheese
Not having ever traveled to New York or Chicago, I don’t know if Metro-people talk to strangers — and I can understand a reluctance to do so — but in a small town, there is no such thing as a stranger. If a person is standing next to you and he’s reaching for an orange, well, then that’s reason enough to strike up a conversation. If he heads to the bananas next, then it’s time to discuss fruit salad recipes and swap diabetic relative stories.
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Tagged chatting, cheese, dementia, encouragement, Facebook, friendlieness, grocery store, middle age, middle aged, strangers
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Zorro Strikes Again at the Local Baptist Church
So this week’s funeral prodded me into translating talk into action as I dealt with the claims office for our shipping company concerning a painting that we had sent to Rive Gauche Galleries in Scottsdale, AZ. Quite fortunately, the painting arrived unscathed, probably because the frame around it took the hit from the tires that ran over the box and cracked the frame straight through.
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Tagged Baptist, church, fingernails, funeral, middle age, middle aged, Rive Gauche galleries, Zorro
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Mr. Spock Knows How to Pronounce “Exacerbate”
In addition to our ability to make memorably embarrassing comments, we all manage to mangle the pronunciation of the English language to such a degree that outsiders assume that we are first generation Norwegians and Poles, as opposed to third.
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Tagged computers, elephant, literal, middle age, middle aged, Netflix, Norwegian, Pictionary, Polish, Socrates, Spock, Star Trek
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Taxation with Way Too Much Representation
At the library itself, the librarians rarely swipe anyone’s card, preferring instead to enter names from memory. One librarian mentioned that people frequently stopped her in the grocery store, asking her if they had any books overdue.
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Tagged grocery store, Halloween, library, middle age, middle aged, taxation, taxes, Village People
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White Appliances in a Red Economy
I am the product of Depression Era parents, whose combined genetic code of frugality fills every available micron of cellular space, and I could no more exchange a perfectly fine working, yet yawningly prosaic washing machine for the new model than I could feed a roasted rump roast, sliced with gravy, to the dog. Continue reading
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Tagged appliances, cell phone, Depression, economy, frugal, middle age, middle aged, red, washing machine
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In This Cat and Dog World, Are You a Kitty or a Pooch?
The odd thing about our society, however, is that in some segments of it, junior high does, indeed, last far beyond 7th and 8th grade. Continue reading
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Tagged cats, church, dogs, football, friends, junior high, middle age, middle aged, Norwegian, popular, teamwork
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Noisy, Messy, Demanding People and Why We Need Them
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Tagged baby, broken dishes, businessman, middle age, middle aged, teenagers, tiger, toddler
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The Wandering Norwegian and His Breakfast Escapades
Another motel set aside an actual hallway complete with tables, chairs, blaring television, and a guard. Oh, he moved napkins around here and there, but mostly he stood in the doorway, making sure that no one escaped with a spotty banana.
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Tagged artist, breakfast, Continental, middle age, middle aged, motel, Norwegian, teenagers
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The Issue of “Choice”
In the potluck table of life, we’re allowed one pass through, with some people’s options stopping shortly after they have picked up the plastic cutlery, and others wending through all the way to the desserts — not much choice in that aspect. None of us really know if we’ll be called off the planet just as we’re deciding between the scalloped potatos with the cheese, or the dish that features ham but no cheese.
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Tagged career, choice, homemaker, Mommy Wars, office, potluck
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