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May 10, 2009
- RED MITTENS FROM WISCONSINIt's Mother's Day. That's a good thing, but it's not what touched me deeply today.My car was in dreadful shape, but being in a somewhat limited financial condition I had no actual hope of bettering my transportation options in the near future.One of my sons and his wife had, for some time, been on the lookout to improve this state of affairs for me, and had been ...
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April 25, 2009
- Today I'm thinking about how so many people have lost their jobs, and how terrifying that must be. Some years ago I wanted a separate "money-making" source , and since my famiy was in the small hotel and food business, I devised a plan to put the $$$ in my own pocket for a change. I developed a pie business, found out that I could operate it myself, and began to pile up the money I ...
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April 6, 2009
- I'M BACKI haven't been writing my blog for awhile. Complications in life have temporarily slow me down, but I'll be adding to my blogs again soon. I especially will resume examining my childhood, as in WHEN I WAS A KID. I've learned important things about myself by letting myself remember my childhood feelings and writing these blogs. Meanwhile, I have been able to pin down the outline for my ...
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January 19, 2009
- Everything is a go. I've edited my book very carefully. I've checked, and checked again. I'm ready to publish! Hooray!! I'm a self-publisher. Editing my own work is the only way open to me at this stage in my writing. I may never achieve what I want in any other way. At least I'll be able to hawk my books one at a time, and have the satisfaction knowing that it's something I did myself. I'm proud ...
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December 31, 2008
- DANCING THROUGH LIFETonight is New Year’s Eve, and I know many people will be dancing when the clock strikes midnight, flipping time over to 2009. I won’t be dancing this year. I haven’t danced in a long time, at least not in public. It’s not because I can’t dance. I dance by myself in my house. Sometimes I pick up my little dog and dance around with her, because when she sees me ...
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December 7, 2008
- My DESIGNER PIE SHOP book is ready. This small business appropriate for two people, a couple, two friends, retired couple, easy to operate, low-cost start-up! Order at lulu.com
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December 4, 2008
- WHEN I WAS A KID - Eight ChristmasWhen I was a kid, Christmas was very important. It was the highlight of my year. We practiced our "pieces" for the Christmas skit at church. It was usually a one-liner, but it seemed to be too much for me when I was small, and putting my assigned five or six words together at just the right time didn’t often work out for me. The local movie theater ...
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November 15, 2008
- OATMEAL BY CANDLELIGHT One of my granddaughters, three and three-fourths years of age, along with her dad and mom, came to visit the first weekend in October.For whatever reason, she and her older sister think that I make the best oatmeal in the world. I suspect it’s because they have been used to eating instant oatmeal. I make the five-minute version.My granddaughter’s mom was attending a ...
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November 13, 2008
- WHEN I WAS A KID - Seven Thanksgiving made a special impression on me when I was a kid. Two separate Thanksgiving experiences in my life were pivotal. Experiences that, in very important ways, changed me forever. THE THANKSGIVING POEMWhat I learned about school is important, and I finally learned it in fifth grade. It took me that long because, when I was a kid, I thought that adults were ...
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November 4, 2008
- WHEN I WAS A KID - Six Veterans DayWhen I was a kid, the significance of Armistice Day, now Veterans Day, was not completely apparent to me. But we were taught in school that the red paper flowers sold that day, the poppies, began with a poem written by a Canadian World War I Colonel, John McCrae, a surgeon with an artillery brigade. They represented the poppies that grew among the "row on ...
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October 28, 2008
- When I was a kid, fall was my favorite time of year. It still is. I'd read the book: "Toby Tyler Joins The Circus". Toby Tyler did it, so I thought it obvious that it was possible for a kid to have adventures in far away places. I wanted to have adventures too. Especially in the fall. I felt excitement in the fall, as if there was something more "out there". I wanted to get ...
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October 22, 2008
- I am soon, within a matter of a week or two, making my new book, Designer Pies, available on lulu.com. I have only a few important pages to add, and I have the tapestry for the cover image to finish. I have put my introduction to the book below. I welcome comments, solicit them in fact, on the introduction below, and the idea itself. I'm well into my second Eva Wynn-Rogers Small Hotels ...
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October 21, 2008
- When I was a kid, about five years old, we lived, perhaps, five-hundred feet away from the Great Northern Railroad tracks. This was a small town, and living by the tracks wasn't a social class issue. The Flyer came late at nigh. It traveled north to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and back again in the morning, all the way to Minneapolis and other destinations. The loud whistle began sounding before the ...
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October 16, 2008
- When I was a kid, my mother worked at various jobs. She worked as a cook in a small, busy, restaurant, as a clerk in a hardware store, and at different times, as a clerk in two different grocery stores. Later she worked for a small manufacturing business, assembling some kind of small parts. My dad worked full time at the Co-Op Creamery, keeping the furnaces going and as the machanic keeping ...
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October 14, 2008
- I'm as concerned as anyone is about the fees airlines are charging their customers these days. I can't judge them, because I don't know the inner workings of those airlines. My background is many years in the hospitality and foodservice business, and I wonder what would happen if a similar system was put into place to save restaurant businesses - they suffer a high rate of failure, and often ...
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