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Today is the day before Easter. This one is going to be a bit of a ramble.�
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Once upon a time when I was little, we lived on a farm on a dirt road, a thousand miles from nowhere. Now this was not one of those picture book farms with white rail fences and pretty barns. It was a labor house in a crick bottom where pavement and...
by babushka
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 06:26 PM PST
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This is a good time of year for eating out with family.
It is also the time of year when my calendar is crowded with birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and days of remembrance, for those I have lost.�
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 10:01 PM PST
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I was sitting in a class of third-graders at St. Michael's Elementary School in Memphis (I being one of those third-graders). My memory is of a settled classroom; a classmate was probably reading a passage from one of our story books—middle-class white...
by HJCV
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 11:10 AM PST
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I was 15, in Xaverian, an elite Catholic high school in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge community in my junior year. It’s on Shore Road, which runs from 69th Street to the Verrazano Bridge, and at the time was littered with some of the wealthiest private homes in...
by psychusa
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on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 02:07 PM PST
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What’s for Dinner? � is a Saturday evening get-together where friends share recipes, talk about good food and help others answer culinary questions.
We welcome you to our virtual table every ...
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Here is our nice list of 100 hit songs from 1997: en.wikipedia.org/… That list has many of the songs that were on the list for 1996. I might post all of them, pointing out that I recall them from last week. If they stayed on the charts, they must have...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Sun Aug 13, 2023 at 12:05 PM PDT
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I'm a child of the 70s and 80s. In the late 70s, we got an Atari VCS (the 2600) and that started a chain of events. Arcades were also entering their heyday, transforming from mostly pinballs to mostly stand-up video games. It was nothing like my...
by Sarkazein
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on Tue May 09, 2023 at 04:30 PM PDT
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My family life is nowhere near positive. Growing up a gay guy who went on to grad school I was the black sheep in the family. I was raised with 2 brothers and a sister, but due to an accident my parents passed away way too soon 18 years ago. That broke...
by CameronProf
38 comments
on Tue Mar 28, 2023 at 10:17 PM PDT
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Good morning, Cafe!
This week’s offering is Sweet Sunday for any number of reasons, but mostly for a personal one.� It was on this day...many years ago….that the DH and I met for the first time.
by The Marti
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on Sun Mar 19, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
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We are born into surrogacy, into families, villages, towns, farms, nation states. Immediately we all commence to drift. Eventually, everything drifts away. Parents, children, leaders, gods, planets. Yes, even planets drift away. The locations of all my...
by bisleybum
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on Sun Mar 05, 2023 at 12:06 PM PST
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Why do most republicans think we are ALL dumb and have memory loss? Of all of the subjects to pick and want to eliminate , Scott picks Social Security and Medicare. You really want to go there Sen. Scott Tissue? Let’s talk about the recent book bans...
by Vetwife
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on Mon Feb 13, 2023 at 01:03 PM PST
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This is a true story, from a long time ago, about the first girl I ever kissed. Or maybe she started it. I don’t know for sure. We were both pretty enthusiastic about it. In Ohio, and as I said, a long time ago. Anyway the infatuation didn’t last, and...
by bisleybum
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on Mon Jan 16, 2023 at 05:11 AM PST
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The most striking dream I had about my mother after her death was when she opened the covers and asked me to come under with her while she cuddled me to sleep. It wasn’t scary or sad, it was just ...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Sun Jan 01, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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I celebrate Christmas and have the upmost respect if you don’t. I started collecting old Christmas tree ornaments in the 1980s as it seemed no one really cared for them back then. I could buy full boxes for a couple of dollars at tag sales, thrift...
by Missys Brother
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on Sun Dec 11, 2022 at 03:20 PM PST
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First, as the chef of this dish, I ask you to click on all the links. Yes, they’re Chef John, but Chef John teaches the techniques first and foremost. When it comes to things like soups or stews, there’s an in between, and no, I’m not talking about the...
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Apr 15, 2023 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Who doesn’t love a good breaded and fried steak, right? From chicken fried steak�to steak Milanese, there are variations all over. My aunt made a recipe she called “fried meat”, which was ...
by zenbassoon
32 comments
on Sat Nov 05, 2022 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Good morning, Newdists!� If your Newdist self is chilly, grab a blankie, a cup of something warm, and a nice nosh.
by The Marti
109 comments
on Sun Sep 25, 2022 at 07:30 AM PDT
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The older I get the more like my father I become. Born in 1930 and passed in 08 he was a unique man. He was runner up to the Detroit News Hunk of the year contest in the early 80s, a Korean War Vet, religious and as strong as an ox. He could not sing,...
by CameronProf
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on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 04:34 AM PDT
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Hi! I’m Itzl!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, ...
by FloridaSNDad
46 comments
on Fri Jun 24, 2022 at 09:55 PM PDT
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