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I posted yesterday. And now it’s gone. What did I say again? I wonder… If I try to repeat myself, it’ll magically appear when I check tomorrow, and then I’ll have to delete or edit. Or I could give up and start over. This is about par for recent events. I am in the query […]

I’ve been out of touch lately because I am just finishing up with a writing conference I coordinated in Madison WI. A committee chair is what they give to those of us who do not run fast enough when the call goes out for volunteers. It happened to me last year, when Maureen, the president […]

I’ve been enjoying a new KFC menu item: the potato bowl. The first time I heard the commercial, I was convinced it was an SNL skit, and sat waiting for the punchline. The customer asks for potatoes, corn and popcorn chicken in a bowl. And the cashier asks him if he’d like them to cover […]

I was hoping to go to the movies for Mother’s Day. Is didn’t work out and I am making up for lost time. I am ambivalent about the Da Vinci Code. I was raised Catholic, and am still a little miffed that I missed, “Secret Catholic Conspiracy Day” during CCD. Maybe this was one of […]

Part of my current day job has turned out to be finding dead people on the internet. I’m a wiz at flipping over virtual rocks and separating the living from the deceased, verifying who should be officially taken out of the database and who’s still warm enough to be direct mailed for another year. This […]