I was at the grocery store today when someone paged Superman over the PA system. “Paging Superman. I repeat, will Clark Kent please come to the service desk.” Weird.
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Today I am thankful for Penny Coffee Day at Kade’s coffee. You go in, you give them a penny and they give you a cup of hot, wonderful coffee. It’s genius, really. I took the kids out yesterday and we drank coffee and played cards. It’s an opportunity to have a special tradition that takes [...]
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I went for a walk the other day. I walked down to the new elementary school and tried to find my favorite creek. It wasn’t there.
The new elementary school is built right where the old school used to stand. They tore down a rather ratty looking building and built a bigger, better version. They [...]
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I have been very nostalgic of late. It’s almost embarrassing. I’ll be driving along with Adiel and we’ll pass something that’s different from when I lived here and I’ll start gushing about what used to be there. I’ll do this about places I didn’t even like.
“Do you remember that junky old drive-in theater that [...]
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There is a book store out in the world that is like Mecca to the book lover. Barbara Berry’s Book Barn. Remember that name. Josh and Adiel told me about the bookstore and said it was wonderful. I checked out the website and it was nice, but this Saturday I had the chance to visit [...]
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I love shopping at thrift stores. I think it has something to do with the thrill of the hunt. Racks of identical items kind of bore me. Plus the extra thrill when, after a successful hunt, I flip over the price tag and it’s fifty cents lower than I expected. Now that’s a rush! [...]
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I have an unusual relationship with the roads in Peoria. The relationship is unusual in that I actually know what the main roads are called and, more or less, where they go. This is unusual for me at least because in Erie I didn’t know many roads even though I’d grown up there. I knew [...]
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