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Ranting mom far from cute

‘Excuse me,” she said and I turned from my perusal of the wall of cute khaki and navy pants to a woman standing near me holding up a blue and tan striped tank top and a blue skirt. “Do you think these look good together? Cute?”

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Teacher creates sticky situation

It started in middle school. It was a teacher’s fault actually, a responsible adult, who first introduced me to it. Out of the blue.

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Pregnancy can leave you 'defeeted'

She was having a hard time.

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Roll down the windows and let’s go ride

It was something we just did, sometimes early in the afternoon or late in the day before the sun went down. Most likely it was Sunday, sometimes Saturday but most always Sunday after lunch was done and Shirley Temple was over on television.

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Life is filled with learning

‘What did you learn today?” I asked and was met with a look of surprise.

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Shopping with a baby’s a gas

Obviously, the baby was fussy. “What do you think it is?” the man, apparently the father of the little person wiggling around in a blue, padded stroller in the middle of the electronics section of Target, asked.

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Who have you butt dialed lately?

“Hello? Hello!”

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Bits of past still glitter

I remember a lot of them. Bits and pieces, some of them. Memories of Christmas.

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Christmas a quiet comfort

“Once you wrote about a comfortable peace at Christmas,” this person wrote. “Please tell us again.”

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Folgers offers a powerful cup of coffee

Damn you, Folgers coffee.

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What a putty at Christmas

Dear Santa, I know it’s been a while since I’ve been in touch — a couple of decades, at least — and I’m really sorry about that.

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What do salon techs really say?

There are many truly thought provoking questions in life that render me sleepless.

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Add health history to holiday talk

Consider my soap box officially out and I am climbing up on it. Can you hear me?

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Morning’s off to good start

Forever lazy. A doughnut ... maybe. And a compliment. Three things that make for a pretty good start to the day.

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Thanksgiving’s not on aisle 3

‘Where is it?” she said, loud enough for all of us around her to hear, three ladies and a little girl standing in the aisle of the drug store.

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