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Category Archives: Prose
Year End
Remember at Pesach when we end with “next year in Remember at Pesach when we end with “next year in Jerusalem?” For me it is “next year” …… and then my thoughts start to spin. I will have a lot … Continue reading
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Horizons
It happens gradually, so gradually as to be unnoticed. Becoming more comfortable with a job and living arrangements, you get into a routine. Meals, showers, laundry are all just punctuation points. Actually, it is not really a settled routine; it … Continue reading
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Key Historical Events
My buddy Steve out in California responded the other day with a remark about a significant historical event being 47 years ago. I looked around the office. I was the only one even born that long ago, much less able … Continue reading
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Post Offices
Sometimes I just know what I want to write, and other days the confluence of inbound email and other people’s thoughts and comments drives the train. In this case I don’t mean going Postal nor do I mean the kind of games that … Continue reading
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11 Sept
and we are perhaps further away from a solution than we were 9 years ago. Terrorism in the world has not been reduced. Innocent people and moderates have had their lives over turned for being in the wrong place, having … Continue reading
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Literature vs Fiction
We have all studied literature in school. Defined by me as that portion of writing in prose in which a point/commentary is delivered through the expression of the story. Fiction on the other hand, is all about the story. The … Continue reading
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Shoes
One of the defining addictions of the 20/30s generations of women seems to be a love affair with shoes. Designer shoes, killer shoes, spike heels, open toes, expensive shoes. It has become a cliché in Chick Lit, on TV and … Continue reading
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Lost thoughts
I have all these opening lines for essays, discussions, commentaries – whatever you want to call them. They pop into my mind as the start of a conversation at the oddest moments. Usually wehn I am behind the wheel of … Continue reading
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Birthday #59
Unlike many other women, I do not have an issue with everyone knowing my age. I just had not planned on announcing my birthday prior to today (Thank you ….Cat..). Long ago when the world was young, I wasn’t in … Continue reading
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OTN
I am stealing a wonderful knitting abbreviation from Ruth, the Scrabblequeen. She doesn’t claim coining of the term, but I am more than willing to let her hold part of the blame. OTN – standing for “on the needles” It … Continue reading
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A moment of Silence
It has been eight years since that horrible day in 2001 when two planes went into the Twin Towers in NY, a third into the Pentagon, and the fourth was taken down in Pennsylvania by the passengers at the expense … Continue reading
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Funk
As you probably guessed, I have been in a bit of a funk. I have been listening to audio books, accomplishing some knitting and spinning, and grinding through things at work. Not a bit of thrill in the whole mess. … Continue reading
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Memorial Day – 2009
Being at a meeting in Budapest leaves me a bit detached from thinking about Memorial Day. I looked back over what I have written before. Scary that both so much and so little has changed in the last five years…. … Continue reading
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these Boots
Emptying out my suitcase this morning, I found my uniform and beret. No t-shirts, thought I had them on a shelf here in Germany. Not true as it turns out; they all migrated to the UK over the last year. … Continue reading
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Tag der deutschen Einheit
There was no plan. Not even an inkling of one. As much as everyone gave lip-service to the concept, no one in West Germany ever imagined a reunified country. But the wall did come down, and West Germany had to … Continue reading
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Tagged bags, history, Ms Copper, sewing
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It’s Fall
Yes, I know that the calendar reads August. There may be summer weather and sunshine elsewhere. But here in Camberley it is cool (16C), raining and school is back in session. It is that last fact most of all that … Continue reading
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Who has time?
If you are looking for knitting, I have been distracted. By a deer in the back garden before six in the morning that could move rather rapidly. Much more so than my ability to get outside with the camera. By … Continue reading
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Tagged Ravelry, social networking, technology
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What is Real?
In one of those Internet phenomenas, I found my thoughts converging between what I have written in the last couple of days, what Fabienne wrote on Monday and some concepts in the Podibook Beautiful Red by M Dursha Wehm. I … Continue reading
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Memes
Memes have been around long before blogging. Being started, evolving and occasionally dying out, The advent blogging software rapidly spread the Meme phenomena to epidemic proportions. There is even The Daily Meme which provides a variety of entertainment from definitions … Continue reading
Food for Thought
30 June 2008, Monday – Process, perfection or procrastination? Camberley, UK Perfection or Completion? Perhaps it is more critical an issue for those who make their living off writing or their blogs; I think it might be worth the rest … Continue reading
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