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Political Muse of the Week…

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

Could McCain possibly have received a better response to his “Celebrity” ad than this?
See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com
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For the first time in my life I have to say…You go girl…

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What would I do without the “internets”?

August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

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The Pleasurable Choice Is the Ethical Choice
I like to say that I’m not an an optimist, but I am a person of hope. That is to say, I cultivate the virtue of hope in myself. Hope takes account of the enormity and darkness of challenges and problems, and yet it meets darkness with [...]

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Ausust One Muse - The Heat Is On

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

First things first — Happy Birthday Sherry. I know you never read these muses…but hell, I’ll still say it here. The best present I ever got…
Now to the subject of this muse…Heat.
It’s hot here, it’s hot across the south, it’s hot on the Blue Ridges of North Carolina and Virginia. The prognosticators are calling for [...]

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Monday Muse - After the crowd…

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments · writing of place

The “Party” on Saturday had all of the appearances of being a success. By the time the house was empty and the ticky-tacky leftovers were put away I could once again hit the lazy-boy and reflect on the past couple of weeks of labor and feel good that it was all over…Sunday dawned without me [...]

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Friday Morning Muse

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

Around these parts most of our ripened fruit happened a month or better ago. The only thing  still to come are the pecans in the fall. Even so the following resonates…
The Suburban Life - Thinking Ahead - Editorial - NYTimes.com
It’s a good year for blueberries.
Decades ago, a farmer planted more than a dozen bushes on [...]

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Mid-week, upgrade muse…

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded this site to the new WordPress 2.6…I thought I was locked out of my own site…It took two days to figure out why I could not log in…user name and password were right…log in again was the prompt…over and over again…then on a users forum, a hint…force a [...]

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Sunday Morning Musing

July 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · just musings

Pardon the parsity of the recent posts. I find myself in that strange world of being in between. After thirty-five years at the same company (yes, most of my co-workers weren’t even born when I started), I find my skills and knowledge not as welcome as they were. Management changes have left me “out of [...]

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