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Entries from December 2009

Protected: TJ Watson to Mae & Booker: 23 December 1926

December 9th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Public Morning Mike

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments

The announcer inside the clock radio perkily voiced, “I hope your Tuesday morning is going better than mine.” That woke me up.

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A Playlist for Autumn

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments

A playlist themed around Autumn in Alabama – much like a similar playlist for Autumn in Massachusetts – would be about serenity, changes (in the sports seasons, the weather and colors in nature), a new academic year, my favorite holiday (Thanksgiving), contemplation, and an awareness of the temporal state in which we exist.

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Protected: Booker to Mae: 18 January 1926

December 8th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Jack’s Short Memory

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Each morning the old man tells me, “My daughter will be 50 in March. She lives with us…long story, let’s just call it a stroke.”

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Praiseworthy Lifeguard Behavior

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Hardly vigilant, the lifeguard sang hymns to himself, loudly, out-of-tune, hands flailing. Poolside, I waited for him to levitate.

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Protected: Mae to Booker: 13 January 1926

December 6th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Booker to Mae: 29 December 1925

December 5th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Linguistic Employment Advice

December 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Hoy en día se me dijo, en Inglés, que mi nivel de empleo sería bastante superior si hablaba español con fluidez.

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50-Dollar Friendship

December 4th, 2009 · No Comments

He’d agreed to sell the artwork to a chum for $400, but after a museum proposed 450, he deemed the relationship worth the balance.

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