Month: December 1993
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ABCs come to office
I guess I was a bit bored as I waited for the copy machine to run-off 120 pages. I began singing “Oh do you know the muffin man that lives on Mulberry Lane?” I was startled by a laugh from around the corner where Iva Gail works, “Joan have you entered your second childhood?” Oops,…
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Left behind travel items
We are packed and ready to visit the relatives up north for the holidays – if we haven’t forgotten something. Although we have traveled extensively, at the beginning of every trip we know we have forgotten something, but we will find out what later. A couple miles from home, we usually remember something we have…
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The book thief
He’s been at it again. The book thief has invaded my bookshelves, my piles and closets of books, sorting through the paperbacks and hard covers, quietly, unobtrusively shifting them from my pile to HIS. I started so innocently. I bought books at garage sales, book stores and through the mail. We read some, others were…
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redecorating one small bedroom
First, she said she had outgrown the dark stained, youth-sized captain bunk bed her dad had built years ago. She wanted a pastel daybed. We went shopping and found day beds that either looked too fragile for any left-over ‘tomboy’ activity or were out of the family budget. Then she moaned, “My room isn’t as…