Tag: family
member name: Visionaerie B.
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December 26, 2006 11:51 PM EST --
December started out promisingly -- with a frosty six-inch blast of snow. As we watched that layer dwindle, the doldrums slowly sunk in. By the time of the 22nd, I was ready to . . .
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November 25, 2006 11:51 PM EST --
Rock and roll music has always inspired me to create, although early on I realized that I probably wasn't going to make "the big time"! Still, my two brothers and . . .
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February 09, 2007 12:39 AM EST --
1. Nabisco Kettle Cookies. These square beauties came in the Famous cookie assortment, and were always the first to disappear. Buttery-delicious, it would be great to have these back in grocery stores. . . .
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February 10, 2007 11:37 PM EST --
I have great news -- our old unused Macintosh Performa computer was adopted today, by a loving home. A vintage '95 model I got for free from a local business, it was mostly . . .
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February 19, 2007 11:54 PM EST --
(This elegy poem was written on July 7, 2003)
In between the summer scenes, a gentle light went out
Gone with a whimper, not a scream, and from a painful bout
The hip dysplasia took its toll, the mighty . . .
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March 01, 2007 11:48 PM EST --
Last Friday was a real watershed of bad luck in our household. It must have been the barometric pressure drop before that nasty ice-snowstorm, but everything seemed to go wrong. . . .
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March 10, 2007 10:42 PM EST --
...Disorienting Illowans With "Smoke and Weirder"...
Last year, Iowa voters rejected the bitter taste of Bush bilge (in the form of Jim Nussle). Instead they headed . . .
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March 31, 2007 11:54 PM EDT --
A crackened sky gave flight today
When God sent down an earthly ray
Delivering a soul to him
As mortal prospects grew so dim.
He’d made it through a stroke and fall
A brand-new hip, and Caedmon’s . . .
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April 01, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
It was the trip that would change my life forever. And I was not even sixteen years old. On July 16, 1978, my brother Ross and I embarked on a journey into history -- and a future . . .
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April 22, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
These days, it often seems like we are living in some kind of profoundly-dysfunctional comic strip -- but with far less amusement, though still run by idiots. (The alternative . . .
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April 26, 2007 11:42 PM EDT --
(I found this one recently, while unearthing some early works from my treasure-packed "Constitution Chest" -- an old modified toy box. Many times when we got sick and were home from school, we'd . . .
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April 28, 2007 10:49 PM EDT --
The image that stands out most in my mind, is the one of her going toe-to-toe with an overzealous police officer, as he ticketed me for mopedalling through some stop signs.
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February 13, 2007 12:06 AM EST --
Since energy costs have recently spiked, it's time to become more resourceful and innovative, and practice some real effective conservation measures. Here's a tentative . . .
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April 29, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
Reports have been flocking in, about a beautiful yet bizarre blossoming vine -- the akebia. It features a magnificently heady fragrance, petite flowers, and finally -- an uncanny . . .
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May 21, 2007 11:38 PM EDT --
I managed to "capture" this item from my friend Judy, by trading her a pair of Bushnell binoculars and a small Sony shortwave radio. The stereo was a bit tricky to load . . .
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January 20, 2007 12:17 AM EST --
There was never a greater place to spend your formative years. It was as if the good Lord himself had bestowed this fertile green upon Grandpa and us -- to laugh and play . . .
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January 23, 2007 12:15 AM EST --
From a very early age, I've been intrigued by those ever-spinning wheels and what goes on above and about them. That meant Matchbox and Hot Wheels mini-cars were frequently . . .
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January 25, 2007 11:40 PM EST --
A few days ago we got a new remote-control TV, to replace the old workhorse model, which had clearly outlived its usefulness. It had no built-in remote control function, only primitive . . .
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March 15, 2007 11:00 PM EDT --
Despite a generally halcyon childhood, I still believe I missed out on some important "rites of passage" during those formative years. Both my brothers got to play Little . . .
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April 13, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
Can you remember the siren cicadas
Their silencing cadence
Cascading through trees?
The neon-green night glow
Blinking like Morse Code
Serenading the bees.
The good kind of hummers . . .
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