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07 Apr

Birthday Cards

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Birthday cards should be special. But every time I go to look for one I become frustrated. I can never find that perfect card! I prefer the card to relay a little humor, if at all possible, but the card manufactures, and I seem to differ on what humor is. So many of their attempts at humor cause me to respond as my students in class responded to what I thought was outlandishly funny back in my teaching days. If…..

24 Mar

Tournament Fever

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I first experienced ‘ tournament fever’ when I was in the sixth grade attending the Clinton Elementary School. Even then I was a proud Clinton Rocket. And that was well before Russia and the U.S.A. were in a race to be the first to escape the bonds of earth and begin our venture into outer space. Rockets were of course important in achieving such an endeavor. Rockets as a high school mascot was a way of keeping up with the…..

11 Mar

Memories

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It’s basketball tournament time. When I was in high school that was the most exciting time of the school year. My senior year basketball season was very memorable. It was a mixture of sadness, frustration and joy all rolled into one. Our mother died unexpectantly from a massive heart attack the day before Thanksgiving that fall. So, my basketball season was marred by those sad memories. Our father would begin the process of selling the family farm as we adjusted…..

23 Feb

A Sucker Is Born Every Minute in Computer Land

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Back in the seventies when C.B.’s were all the rage everyone with a Citizens Band Radio had their own personal name or ‘handle’ as it was referred to. In today’s modern times the computer has taken over the job that the C.B Radio had in those earlier years. So, I’m giving myself a computer ‘handle’. Who knows this may start a new tradition for millions of computer operators. My computer ‘handle’ is going to be “Tootsie Pop”. Tootsie Pops are…..

07 Feb

Facebook Is Not A Site For Hypochondriacs

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I suppose with such a huge word in the title of this blog I should define that word so we are all on the same page. A hypochondriac is a person who is abnormally anxious about their health. I’ve been aware of my hypochondriac tendencies since I was a small child. I’m so old I lived through the polio epidemic of the 1950’s. In fact, I can still remember the fear I felt when an elementary student in our school…..

19 Jan

7.9 Acres

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We visited a retirement home with a couple of our adult children this week. Neither Kathie nor I thought it was necessary but agreed we are at that age when those thoughts need to be entertained and explored. So we spent an enjoyable weekend in Fargo, first watching our beloved Minnesota Vikings end yet another season without capturing that coveted Super Bowl. 🙁 Then Monday at 1:00 pm we were given a tour of a very magnificent retirement facility. For…..

04 Jan

As a Door Closes Another Door Opens

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The title of this blog sounds like the opening to a Sunday morning church sermon. I guarantee that is not the case. In fact, my reactions to this ‘true to life’ blog adventure is causing me to use words that definitely should not be uttered in a church! Let me explain. I’m always amazed as I drive down our driveway and hit the garage door opener. I smile as the garage light comes on and the garage door springs to…..

20 Dec

A Merry Christmas Gift

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Tis the season for gift giving so I got the brilliant idea to do just that. Today’s blog is my gift to you, the reader. It’s not wrapped. I hope you don’t mind. 🙂 I was at a craft fair this fall when a young lady came up to my table and pointed at a pile of Nature’s Christmas Story books. “We used to read our children The Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve just before bedtime. But now we…..

06 Dec

Amazon and a Retired Librarian

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Being an author allows me opportunities to experience things that I would never have had the opportunity to experience. Case and point the email I received last week from an unknown Floridian. When I opened my emails in my iPad, I observed a strange site. Attached at the bottom of the first email was a photo of my children’s book “The First Advent” opened to page 34 on the left while the page on the right, if I’m remembering how…..

22 Nov

It Was Showtime!

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Last week I was sitting in the dark at 10:30 am stuffing my face with popcorn. A very strange breakfast you are probably thinking, and you would be correct. The Wheaton/Herman/Norcross football team was playing in the semifinal championship football game at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis the home of the Minnesota Vikings. We had the choice of riding a bumpy, noisy school bus three hours to view the game or sleep in that morning and take in the…..

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