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THE RULE

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
There is a rule by which faith must abide
A law to govern that is very rich and wide
It seems to be simple, but is so profound
As to confuse people just looking around.

"Why," they ask, "is God so unfeeling...
"He lets lawless mobs go on dealing....

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Learning About Airplanes

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
I was not yet age two, and was running around the house in Bucks Mills that my great grandfather had built, where Grammy Coombs lived. The same house with the slippery linoleum with the red roses. Dad was making something on the living room table....

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Images From Infancy

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
1933 My earliest memories.

Grammy Coombs' living room linoleum had big red roses with a green leaf floral design, and it was slippery smooth. There was a big table in one of the westward corners, and a woodstove heater in
the center of the east w...

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Ancestry and Birth

posted over 4 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 1 comment
My mother, who I've always known as Ma, had told
everyone repeatedly that her name was Myrtle Irene Nesta Johnson, but official birth records show
her name to be Myrtle Hesta Johnson. This seems likely (but may be wrong), because her mother's name...

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Thuh Troll 2

posted over 4 years ago, updated about 3 hours later | 1 comment
Previously written in "Thuh Troll", James got kidnapped by a hunchbacked peddler thought to be
a troll. He's taken in the peddler's wagon to the kidnapper's cabin in the woods, stopping along the way to leave a cauldron with sugar in it for a deaf...

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Thuh Troll

posted over 4 years ago, updated 9 days later | 1 comment
"Not long after thuh wizard come ta town," Dad began one day after the war news in about 1942, "Afore some er thet other stuff I tol' ya 'bout come ta happen -- even 'afore we come ta meet Marcus thuh Magician -- they come a peddler out our countr...

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Bouncing Bernice

posted over 4 years ago, updated 4 days later | 0 comments
"If it wasn't for my grandfather, said Zebadia Hinckley, a tough, wiry man in his mid-forties, "you
wouldn't be laying there with that broken leg.

We were alone in the small, antiseptic hospital room, Zeb being my only visitor. I'd known he'd com...

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Sojourn

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
I left home before I had gotten there
Not knowing I was home until I'd gone.
Once away the darkness made me stare,
Because I thought the road all wrong.

Moving aimlessly, blindly onward,
Along that mysterious, misty way,
I groped for some hope of...

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Uninvited Guests

posted over 4 years ago, updated about 3 hours later | 0 comments
I'm sure all will recognize the "guests" in this bit
of verse that I scribbled out years ago. It goes
like this:

O', mosquito, you, mosquito,
I jes' cannot see...
Why you mosquitoes spend your time
A-drilling holes in me!

I hear you skeeter...

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Blog?

posted over 4 years ago, updated about 2 hours later | 1 comment
I'm puzzled. What is a Blog? It's not defined in
any of my several dictionaries, nor could I find a
definition on line. I've read a few so-called "Blogs"
and still remain mystified as to what, specifically,
a Blog is...an acronym?...a B-log? Can s...

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