Linda Lange | Linda Lange
May.04.2013
Spring has finally staggered and stumbled into Cincinnati. It’s been a whole week and a half since I wore my heavy coat, so I finally can take it to the cleaners. A less rewarding chore presents itself—it’s time to maintain the outside of my house.
I admire those who love yard work, but I...
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Apr.02.2013
It may not seem like much to you, but it was a big step for me.
“Meeting Wednesday 7:00,” the e-mail read.
“Sorry, can’t make it,” I replied.
Last week, for the first time in my sixty-five years, I bowed out of a meeting with no excuse except not wanting to go.
I’ve simplified my life because...
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Mar.05.2013
If you’re an author, or simply love to read, maybe you’ve heard a new term recently: Boomer Lit. It’s an emerging genre that encompasses novels, memoirs, self-help books, poetry and more.
The premise is simple. There’s a market of seventy-eight million Americans born between 1946 and 1964. They are...
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Feb.24.2013
I didn’t want it to be over. They almost had to throw me out when it ended. Last Sunday I attended the Human Race Theatre’s production of Lombardi at the Loft Theatre in Dayton.
The play was special for me because I grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, during the years when Vince Lombardi...
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Feb.12.2013
I MISS NEWSPAPERS!Posted on February 12, 2013 by Linda Lange
I miss newspapers. Not the piddly thing I read this morning—the one that didn’t last through breakfast—but newspapers like they used to be.
Recently, in search of Packers history, I unearthed some Green Bay Press-Gazettes from the ‘60s....
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Feb.05.2013
SOMETHING TO HOLD ONTOPosted on February 5, 2013 by Linda LangeI shivered a little in the flimsy gown, although the room was warm. I was waiting for the results of my mammogram. My second in two weeks. The breast imaging center had called to say there was a suspicious area on my film. They needed...
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Jan.27.2013
Just this once, I wanted a snow day. After more than twenty years of dispensing medication to cats at a Cincinnati animal shelter, I was overdue. The animals need care, regardless of the weather. But we’re an all-volunteer organization, and some people won’t volunteer when it snows. That puts...
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Jan.17.2013
We’ve had Tebowing and Griffining and now we have Kaepernicking. Is it ever going to end?
Image from NFL Memes
Of course, I’d be more tolerant of Colin Kaepernick’s signature move—kissing his tattooed right bicep—if the San Francisco 49ers quarterback hadn’t been entitled to celebrate quite so...
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Jan.14.2013
A funny thing happened while I was watching the Green Bay-San Francisco NFL playoff game Saturday night. (Unfortunately little of what happened on the field was humorous, so let’s not get into that.) I was in the bar at a neighborhood restaurant, rooting for my Packers, when a woman came up to me...
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Jan.06.2013
We didn’t believe it could happen to us. My relatives and I are animal lovers. We’re the kind of people who stop to watch a dog walking with its owner or a couple of squirrels frolicking on a lawn. But here we were, bringing two pet cats to a shelter.
Lily and Ellie in better days
Last summer it...
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