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Missed the New Year blog frenzy!

03 Wednesday Jan 2018

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Blogging, Home, winter

Well, I managed to avoid joining the stream of folks wishing happiness and prosperity to everyone on WordPress, YouTube, Facebook, …

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Music for the soul–or not

07 Sunday May 2017

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iTunes

I recently bought an album of music from the iTunes store. Now, this isn’t particularly unusual for me, because I …

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It’s in my hot little hands!

21 Tuesday Mar 2017

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Brevity in Paradise, OCWG, Orange County Writers Guild

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What is? The book, of course! Brevity in Paradise is available in paperback on Amazon, and with Prime shipping, I …

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On Tenterhooks

13 Monday Mar 2017

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Brevity in Paradise, publication

Idioms drop into our language from sources that we’d never think about and then change so that the original connotation …

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It’s been a quiet week in Lake…wood

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Garrison Keillor, Prairie Home Companion

Ha! I’ll bet you thought I was going to say Lake Wobegon, didn’t you? Maybe not. Maybe Prairie Home Companion …

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Rachmaninoff and near-rain

30 Sunday Oct 2016

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music, Rachmaninoff

They didn’t even bother to promise us rain for today, although I sincerely believe that the weather pundits do that …

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Art for the sake of family harmony

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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Art

“How’s it going?” “It’s coming along all right. Almost done now.” Richard lifted the brush tip from still-wet canvas and …

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It’s WINTER. Where’s my weather laugh?

27 Saturday Dec 2014

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Winter has finally come to southern California. At this time of the year I usually pop out some cheery Facebook …

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Are these foods even around any more?

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by anitascribbles in Eating out, Family, Food, Friends, Games, Memoir, Memories, Movies, Sports, Uncategorized

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chili size, Dodgers, food, Good Humor, Log Cabin, nostalgia

Chili Size When I was growing up in the Los Angeles area and in the Eisenhower era, my dad was …

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The mind boggles

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

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blog, housework

I got up this morning and fully intended to write something important in this spot. However, some demon possessed me …

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Prompts 2015-05-02 Holidays

Prompts: 1. We’re going to need some 2. We achieved about average 3. All about family BEGIN WRITING We used to have Fourth of July at my house every year, partly because our city allowed fireworks when all the surrounding areas didn’t. The main reason, though, is because I really hate to clean house. Now, […]

Prompts 2015-04-25 Pickup

Prompts: 1. Leave the lights on 2. I held my breath 3. Emotions began unraveling BEGIN WRITING: My ex is my ex for a lot of reasons. Most of his flaws weren’t all that big, but they were aggravating as hell. The only reason I didn’t leave him years ago was some obscure thought that […]

Prompts 2017-10-14 Art show

Prompts: 1. The train is never on time 2. Scalding hot coffee 3. Where have all the young girls gone BEGIN WRITING: It was never my intention to let it get this far, but that’s the way things have been going in my life lately. At the time we started the project, there were only […]

Prompts 2016-09-03 Agreement

Prompts: Always one screw left over What about the agreement? His reason for retiring BEGIN WRITING: The regular Wednesday night meeting of the Longwood Gab and Gargle Club broke up about ten o’clock, as usual, but Philip and May were still sitting in the booth at a quarter past eleven. “What about the agreement?” Philip […]

Prompts 2017-07-22 Thurber’s birthday

Prompts: At this time of the year they and the earth collide A chain of little blue flowers Better than reality BEGIN WRITING: When, against all prognostications, Chet Thurber survived to see his eightieth birthday, his neighbors decided to throw a birthday bash for him. You might assume that this was because of their great […]

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