Month: May 2009
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Montana has Two Seasons – Winter and July
Every year about this time, our quaking aspens grow leaves seemingly overnight and having leaves they begin to quake. The plum bush out front begins to bud and while the lilacs and roses seem slow they too begin to stretch and yawn and tease me with remembered color and smells. Every year I begin to…
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High Fences and Constitutional Writes
We express ourselves for many reasons. To persuade, defend, entertain, empower and in many cases, we write, just because we can. Expression is part of our ‘constitutional rights’ in the U.S. People enjoy protection of those rights, or writes. My childhood was very functional and that means I was very adaptive. I could see this…
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Answering the Call – Cell Phones and Tin Cans
The frustrating thing about having a cell phone is that the darned thing goes off pretty much at random. Just because I have a phone, doesn’t mean I am going to answer it. My family knows this and will assume I check my call history at my convenience and I’ll get back to them. My…