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Category Archives: General
Shhhh
How to write about silence when the very act of doing so conjures up a voice in ones head? That narrator’s voice that accompanies such writings and hopefully sounds something like Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones. Today’s goal, though, … Continue reading
Posted in General, Travel
Tagged peace of mind, Sequoia National Park, silence, tranquility
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Loop-de-loo
I’ve got a song stuck in my head. It’s an old childhood song that goes something like: Here we go loop-de-loo. Here we go loop-de-la. Here we go loop-de-loo. All on a Saturday night. I wonder if this song’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Christmas music, happy holidays, loop-de-loo, new year resolution
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Occupy Walmart
Eating at a fast food establishment recently I experienced the unimaginable. The soda fountain wasn’t working! The enticingly colored machine, full of delicious promise, was actually bleeding, its malfunctioning ice-maker causing a perpetual stream of water to pour from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Diane McEachern, Occupy, social change, social injustice, Wall Street, Walmart
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Sliced Bread
The term “the greatest thing since sliced bread” started out innocently enough, a 1928 marketing strategy for Kleen Maid Bread in Chillicothe, Ohio. The original phrase was “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”, although … Continue reading
