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I have a confession to make: I am a picky eater. Now, this will come as no surprise to those who live with me, but grownups are supposed to act, well, grown up. And one of the things grownups are not supposed to do is be picky about food. It simply...
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“Do you have a compost pile?” the man on the phone asked me. I thought this was odd—a survey about composting? Buying time, I responded, “Excuse me?” The disembodied voice repeated the question, then, for clarification explained, “It’s your neighbor.” Ah, the man who lived behind the wall, next door to...
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It is The Great Depression. It is rural Redland Township, Hempstead County, Arkansas. Crops have been planted and are coming up. They look promising. Cotton and corn. Soon word comes from the federal government of new programs of how to deal with the overabundance of crops...
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Joyce tells us about living in Peterborough in rural South Australia as a child and the upgrading of their external 'long drop'tiolet with a 'toilet pan'. The nightcart man was responsible for regularly picking up full pans and replacing them with empty pans. One day there was a mishap in the...
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I have held many positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the largest organizations there is in the world for women. I held the position of President of the Relief Society in our ward for approximately four years from 1969 to 1972. I was just...
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I've been told over the years that I evidently have no "edit button". Which is sooo not true. I find myself editing my thoughts ALL the time, but evidently not enough. I've been told I am real, crazy, too funny, impatient, open, passionate, impulsive and even inappropriate. That said, I have...
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Several years ago, when my oldest son Aaron was going to college studying nursing, he and I were working on an automobile and we needed a part to finish up the job. I called one of the local wrecking yards and found that they had just the part that we needed. ...
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The date was July of 1978. I had graduated college 6 months earlier and got offered a job in Saudi Arabia. At the time the only thing I knew of the country was that it was somewhere in the middle east and I had seen the movie of Lawrence of Arabia. Nonetheless...
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