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Nov.12.2008
Members of Southern Illinois Writers Guild offered their books at our table Saturday and Sunday at the annual AutumnFest at John A. Logan College. We also display and sell our anthologies, but we have noticed a big decline in buying since the rise in gas prices. I enjoyed the day there Saturday...
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Nov.10.2008
How can we be so far into fall when it seems like November has barely started? Someone said this morning only six weeks till time for the Christmas program! I thought I was keeping up, but obviously I am not. Election was at the start of November, but by next week this time, we are over half way...
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Nov.05.2008
My tears came as I watched President Elect Obama give his heartwarming acceptance speech in Grant Park. The crowd looked like a Norman Rockwell painting of America—all ages, all colors, famous people and ordinary people. One young white woman was so overcome with emotion that she was on her knees...
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Nov.02.2008
Leaves on trees lining the highway have finally joined the color display of the orange, wine, and red leaves that have brightened lawns and back roads for a couple of weeks. As we drove to Lake Saint Louis yesterday, yellows predominated the color scheme, but all the colors were there making it a...
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Oct.29.2008
Fifty years ago today one of my fondest wishes came true. I had a new baby son. So naturally I have thought about Gerry all day today.
After I had put on a roast for our noon meal, I had time read a bit of Charles Frazier’s thirteen moons and regretted having to stop just when I got to the...
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Oct.26.2008
Gerald is back from Georgia and just finished showing me a slide show of the Oconee High School softball team, who are now the state Class AAA champions. He is busy now making some prints of Geri Ann during the game.
Gerald came through Nashville a little too early this morning to call Leslie...
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Oct.23.2008
The presidential candidates are all over the map meeting up with America’s citizens to win their votes. The citizens themselves also find travel much more a part of their lives than any other time in history. Mot very long ago, it was not unusual for someone to say when someone died that the...
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Oct.19.2008
Today was another gorgeous Indian summer day, but the drive up and across the Mississippi River to O’Fallon and Lake Saint Louis really did not treat us to any more fall coloration than last Sunday’s drive. Leaves are staying green longer than they used to when I can remember their being in all...
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Oct.15.2008
I spent the last two days at home at Woodsong--something I always enjoy. Saturday when I went to our village library, I was finally able to check out John Grisham's The Innocent Man. I finished it last night, and I it is very much worth reading. This is his first nonfiction book after writing 18...
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Oct.12.2008
A Beautiful Afternoon at St. Anne's
by Sue Glasco at 9:56 PM PDT, October 12, 2008
As Gerald and I drove down Interstate 57 to Anna after church today, I commented on how few bright colors were there on this weekend of Anna’s annual Colorfest. Gerald brought us back home over the hilly road...
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Oct.08.2008
When I got up at 7 this morning, Gerald and Gerry were already at the breakfast table planning their day--although it was almost midnight when Gerry arrived at Woodsong last night after he drove up from a conference for new coaches in Birmingham.
They have spent the day cleaning out dog pens and...
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Oct.07.2008
When we visited granddaughter Leslie Eiler at Belmont University recently, she explained that for security reasons at the time of the Presidential debates, students would need to either stay in their dormitories or be off campus. I was wondering yesterday where she was when we received an email...
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Oct.05.2008
After Mary Ellen and I spent a lazy morning lolling in her pool, we had time to hurry to the mall to get my hair fixed before Gerald was to return from his stress test. Back at her house, where we thought he would be waiting, we ate a sandwich and phoned him. As with most things, the test took...
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Oct.02.2008
Dear All--
Late yesterday afternoon, Gerald brought me home from Barnes-Jewish Hospital after 5 days there following our combined trip for BSU reunion/cardiology appointment/stress test for Gerald//visit with daughter Mary Ellen's family in the west St. Louis area.
Gerald's test results were...
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Sep.24.2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
As soon as we eat a bowl of soup and sandwich, we will be packing to go to our daughter Mary Ellen's in Lake Saint Louis. We have been wanting to go up to visit with her and Brian, Trent, and Brianna, and this worked out well.
We have our annual reunion of the 1940's...
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About Sue
Sue Glasco spent her childhood in the small town of Jonesboro in Southern Illinois and she has loved small towns ever since. During the four summer months when her teacher parents had no salary, she spent her early summers at Mt....
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