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A Chance to Test Out a Fantasy
There are fantasies that are based on old love affairs that occurred years ago. They are based on memories and subject to many potential factual faults, emotions that were transitory and incompletely captured, and then, eroded in their faulty state, over time. Probably, fortunately, those fantasies are not frequently tested. Thus, they can ( Read more... ) -
A Very Special Sunday
As one who has been away for years, lured by the ease and reach of Facebook, I have at least one surviving friend on LJ, and I was encouraged to be welcomed back. FB has its many communities but most members favor short entries, or links and reactions. I guess there's a big part of me that likes to chew over an idea, try to shape it with the ( Read more... ) -
Away for a Long Time
The arrival of Facebook and the gradual increase of my activity there resulted in my ignoring LJ for way too long. I'm still out there, with the same interests, airplanes, Spitfires, specifically, and Porsches ( Read more... ) -
2 Years to the Day!
Another Memorial Day Weekend, and some time to think and write, and return to an old medium, where I can reflect and where my thoughts don't pop up on the screens of "friends" from the Facebook universe…. not that I don't like Facebook, but it doesn't usually encourage me to the kind of introspection that I like to treat myself to, and share, on an ( Read more... ) -
4 Hours 10 Minutes to Zero Hour
We're celebrating Memorial Day weekend with the Bjurstens in Corte Madera. Peter, my son-in-law, has always had a special interest in the B-17, and we've visited one together at the Chino Air Museum. My fantasies were always more in the direction of fighter planes, the Spitfire, in particular. A month or so ago, while perusing the AAA magazine, ( Read more... ) -
Seat 15A Swallowed My Passport!
The events of April 12, 2013 ~ 2 PM, PDT ( Read more... ) -
Farewell to an Indomitable Spirit
He died on December 18, 2012, following a liver-kidney transplant several months ago. This was his second kidney transplant, the first, coming from his mother, was done in 1976, and functioned successfully until April 2010, when he was started on hemodialysis ( Read more... ) -
A Rant on Free Offers and Internet Frustration
This was psychotherapy….. It really is a great espresso maker. Letter sent off today, before I visit the hospital. No, the regular hospital. Not the psychiatric hospital ( Read more... )
