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Honor thy mother (and grandmother)

By wws on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 6:31pm |
I was thinking about my mother last night and today, and it occurred to me that -- at least here at TPM --  I have dropped more criticisms than praises of her in various comments -- comments that may have...
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What Matters

By wws on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 10:38pm |

I saw, and appreciated Ripper's blog which asked who needed real time assistance. There are people who need that assistance. I might be one of them, if I did not suffer insuperable pride. So, because I still do, I direct your...I saw, and appreciated Ripper's blog which asked who needed real time assistance. There are people who need that assistance. I might be one of them, if I did not suffer insuperable pride. 
So, because I still do, I direct your attention to my Posterous page:http://wendystaebler.posterous.com/

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Keel-hauled Redemption

By wws on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 10:19pm |
I am not a poet; my mother was. So, I'm cautiously taking baby steps, re: poetry. To see the photograph that illustrates what I am talking about, well or badly, please link to:http://wendystaebler.posterous.com/   A fog-bound sloop, trapped in...
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Ask not....

By wws on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 8:57pm |
Several voices I respect at the Cafe have recently commented --  somewhat dismissively, if ironically -- that the Cafe has, in their view, lost its luster; to them, the tone of the Cafe has become "boring" pablum that may be...
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Boomtoons

By wws on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:26pm |
 BOOMTOONS:  An Interactive Forum for Women Over 50             When I was in the sixth grade, a friend with journalistic ambitions decided to enlist the help of his classmates to publish a weekly newspaper. The format was a single...
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Deadlock Redux

By wws on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 6:10pm |
NOTE: I did not repost this. Apparently it was reposted automatically when the weekend spam was deleted. So dpo continue the discussion if you are interested in doing so --- particularly if the discussion moves on from the particular...
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Again, a Dark and Stormy Night

By wws on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 12:54am |
It's snowing -- in Charleston, SC, for the first time since 1990. It is then, for us, "a dark and stormy night." Which recalls the laughs we had last year -- our hearts newly full of hope and confidence after...
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A Kumbaya Curry

By wws on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 6:13pm |
After all that talk about donuts yesterday, dinner was either going to be a complete breakdown at Krispee Kreme or, to forestall that, spontaneously asking friends over (including Republicans) to share a one-dish meal intended to be nourishing, rejuvenating...
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ORACLES

By wws on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 7:27pm |
Donal has reminded us how prescient George Orwell and Aldous Huxley were in their imaginings of the future. To that roster of insightful seers I would like to add Doris Lessing, who wrote The Golden Notebook in 1962.  Perhaps...
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No Anima, No Animus, Just Animation

By wws on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 9:16pm |
Tomorrow is a day to relax with friends and family. A day to give thanks for not only the basics, but also the things that make us smile.Little else makes me smile with as much simple pleasure as does clever...

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