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Oct.05.2011
October 5       Jeopardy       Today I tore down the isolation booth.  I didn’t live in there exactly; sometimes...
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Oct.06.2011
October 6           MCBuddLake     Barefoot smokers sit downstairs chatting on cell phones as I wait.  Wait...
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Oct.07.2011
October 7       What Oliver Could not Know     One of the complications of being an orphan is not learning about the...
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Oct.08.2011
October 8       Wasilla     I don’t appreciate those who wear ignorance as a fashion accessory, but then I have to work too...
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Oct.09.2011
October 9       The Problem with the Peter’s Principle       Is there a harsher lesson than learning that love is not...
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Oct.10.2011
October 10       The First We   Before powerlessness can be dealt with, before unmanageability can be faced, it is imperative...
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Oct.12.2011
October 12     Message with no Bottle     I found a note while I was cleaning the art cupboard.  It was written in my hand...
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Oct.14.2011
October 14       Matching       “Matching calamity for serenity,” is a task requiring attentive diligence.  Each...
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Oct.16.2011
   October 16       Autonomic     Alcoholics in isolation go no place good.  Isolation is too expensive to...
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Oct.17.2011
  October 17       Bowman Beach     The swirl with the flash of teeth that I backed away from turned out to be dolphin...
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Mar.28.2012
Another deer count is scheduled for tomorrow. Volunteers have assigned quadrants and will each count their quadrant between 7 AM and 8 AM. I'm...
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Mar.30.2012
As I'm finishing my novel editing, I'm amused how important a dog became at the end. The dog was never planned and doesn't appear until the book's...
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Apr.09.2012
An old television show, Romper Room, came to mind this morning. Actually, it was a song. Oh dark thirty, I was in a conference call and thought...
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Apr.11.2012
The first step in getting help is acknowledging your addiction.  Mine is not serious, like heroin or other drugs, nor even innocuous like lip...
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Apr.12.2012
Fell asleep early and woke up hours later, hot in bed, restless. Drifted back to the office, back to editing, polishing, and flicked on the telly....
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Apr.19.2012
Mom is always telling me things like that, though. "I told you," she'll say. "I knew that was going to happen. I warned you. Didn't I warn you?" I...
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May.01.2012
No fear do doubt no worry no anger no hostility no resentment no bitterness no hatred no sickness no illness no sadness no despair no frustrations no...
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May.03.2012
Hearing the rattle of kibble hitting her bowl, she stood, indulged in a quick back arch, stretched her front legs, yawned, and hurried to her eating...
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May.16.2012
Beautiful mid-spring weather graces Corvallis. It was fifty-five when I set out this morning, with patchy clouds. The sky is now unbroken blue....
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May.23.2012
Remember those old movies where a group is hunkered down and watchful? The people are peering out into woods, jungles, or streets. They're often...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.