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Be prepared

Everyone in the Anchorage bowl area should be prepared for a blizzard tonight since I’m having my studded snow tires changed out today. Sorry about that.

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Is it just me or….

Is it just me or does Tom Cruise just continue to get stranger with each interview?  And seriously, have they sucked out what few brains Katie Holmes might have had going into this fake relationship?  One is reminded of a certain 50s macho male star and his brief abortive marriage.

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TV shopping is not for the faint of heart

In the spirit of spending my tax refund at least three times over, I went to a store the other day to look at TVs. Since my current one is so small I have to literally pull my chair to within two feet of it to really see well, I figured I could go to the eye doctor or get a bigger TV. The bigger TV won hands down.  Much more fun than an eye doctor…no offense, Grant.

So I’m standing in the store staring at what looks like miniature movie screens when a very nice young man comes up

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Spent the day….

I spent the day at a journalism forum representing the Italian-Inupiat subset at a diversity forum.  It’s amazing how few of us there are.

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A musing on aging

Growing old doesn’t mean everything stops working…or, at least if it does, you thankfully don’t remember that it doesn’t because you can’t remember that it ever did.

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Give foster kids a chance at a future

April is Child Abuse Awareness Month.  This year, it’s also the month in which Christians celebrate Easter, a time that honors the death and resurrection of a man who famously said in Mark 10:14, “ Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.”

As a child growing up Catholic, I never doubted that those words were literally as well as figuratively true.  Pictures hung all over our grade school of Christ sitting on a rock with little chubby boys and girls running towards his open arms with joy

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Seriously, who cares if my bra fits?

In the grand scheme of things, how important could that possibly be?  And yet I must go look for one that apparently will push/pull/shove/uplift/separate/and cover nipple dents in order to look proper when out in polite company.  Sigh…..

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When we were just kids….

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When I was young, and the Vietnam war raged, I made the most unlikely friend in a guy named Paul DuCharm. He was in military school with my cousin and was as gung ho a marine and soldier as you can get.  I was a peace marcher who sat in front of draft boards and marched on the Pentagon.  And yet Paul and I managed to find a way to be friends.

Then he went to Vietnam as a young marine, He died in less than 30 days.  Just more cannon fodder.  But he’s never been forgotten. And then, last

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What were our grandmothers thinking

I made a family recipe for a dinner party last night.  I started cooking on Saturday at about 1 PM and finished all the preliminary steps by about 9:30 PM. I then started in again yesterday afternoon in order to have dinner ready by 6 PM.  And all I could think was that my grandmother did this on a regular basis all her life.  It is apparently true that old time Italian family recipes are there to keep women in the kitchen cooking all day and night so they don’t bother the men while they do important things like sit

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Recorded political messages

Seriously, what idiot thought these up?  I mean, how annoying can it get? You come home from a hard day’s labot and see your message machine flashing.  Thinking someone you care for may actually have called, you hit the play button only to hear a dozen canned messages from political candidates. I find myself uncontrollably screaming at the phone even though in the few sane moments left in my life I am very aware that the phone is an inanimate object whose annoyance value is directly attributable to its misuse by humans. I think I will follow my friend Chris’

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