Notes from Around the Block- Olive the trees have olives
- Wanda Hickey and the Frog Pond
- A recently discovered DNA thread: forwarding news articles
- A Bride in Blue
- The Gates to a President’s Hell: Water and the IRS
- Marriage in Oxymoronica
- The Present Moment
- If your life were a book
- From the mouths of old babes
- The Atlanta Teachers’ Onion, then and now
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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Help! I am on Hold.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, home of Too Many People. Since I choose to live in a land of Too Many People, I must contend with long lines everywhere. From the check stand at Lucky’s Grocery Store … Continue reading
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Cheri’s Top Ten Tips for the First Day of School
I called roll on the first day of school, five times a day for 26 years. Common names such as Jones and Chen, Smith and Liu, and uncommon names such as Lakshimapathy and Marymee jumped off the roll sheet and … Continue reading
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The River
Rivers have been the inspiration for poets, writers, lyricists, and musicians since man began scratching his ideas into stones. When I was 10 years old, some of my most dramatic childhood memories were fertilized in and by the mouth of … Continue reading
