I think the . . .

I think the people making ageist jokes about John McCain, racist jokes about Barak Obama, and sexist jokes about Hillary Clinton should stand in front of a crowd where ignorant fools are allowed to make fun of them.
I think the cat’s attention to the fern means she will soon be leaving me a ferny gift [...]

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I love the . . .

I love the cool of early morning,
I love the way water falls from a cliff,
I love the cry of a hawk.
I love the pictures in children’s books,
I love songs from musical theater,
I love the complexity of a good enchilada.
I love the scrubbed faces of kids,
I love the round bloom of a white daisy,
I love the [...]

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Dinner

Picture dinner with friends in a restaurant. Are you the type who wants to linger in conversation long after the table has been cleared of food, dessert and coffee? Or are you the type who wants to eat and get moving?
I’m in the latter category. It isn’t very friendly and is probably a character flaw, [...]

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lunch

Lunch at Cafe Brioche in Palo Alto with Nancy Jo was like all experiences with Nancy Jo: warm and interesting and good for the spirit. Maybe that’s why the portobello mushroom sandwich I ate tasted so fabulous. The marinade for the mushroom was complex and delicious, it was perfectly cooked. Which was better? Seeing Nancy [...]

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breakfast

Breakfast when I was a kid took time. Pan fried bacon, home made pancakes, toast with real butter, eggs over easy. Getting on the school bus in the morning, the air vibrated with the aroma of pancake syrup and bacon grease. Could we eat that way in the old days because we were active? Or [...]

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Back Up

Whew, when you are away from your automatic backup device for a week, it throws a tizzy when you get home and plug it in. This is how our lives are run: synchs, back ups, downloads, updates. The action verb in our lives is google. It determines every thing we know, place we go, action [...]

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San Francisco

Like everyone else who visits San Francisco, I went to see the Golden Gate Bridge. Bridges are one of the most beautiful and fascinating of manmade creations. This bridge is especially wonderful because of its setting and the surrounding beauty of the bay and the hills.
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on [...]

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Gone Walkabout

I’m taking a week off to go walkabout. Please continue to write using some of the older posts as your prompt. The archives go back to January 2006 (wow, I’ve been doing this a while) so you should be able to find something that sparks a thought.
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Alice

I just read the Neville Shute novel A Town Like Alice. I didn’t read it years ago when it first came out, although I remember loving the TV movie based on it. It’s a lovely story, gently told. My book club read On the Beach last year, and we’re continuing with Neville Shute this year. [...]

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Dwellings

I spent the weekend climbing the rocks and ladders at Mesa Verde National Park, showing the cliff dwellings to the grandkids. In the years since going there with the kids, or since going there as a kid myself, things have changed. More people visiting have forced the park service to regulate tourists by limiting tours [...]

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