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I’m getting old…
3 hours ago
by Andrew
My back hurts, my memory’s going and I enjoy a quiet night in with my slippers on. I’m getting old. Seriously, the past few months have drilled it into me that I am just not made for the fast-paced life of High School. I think I’ll just retire after my GCSEs, buy a little house in the country and re ...
Andrew Murray - andmurphoto.wordpress.com · 1 reference
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Even the Dogs Are Falling Apart
7 hours ago
by auntyd
My friend, Laurie, and I walked our dogs together this morning. Her dog, Pepper, is a 14-year-old standard poodle who’s getting down in his back. Actually he’s pretty spry for his age, and mostly I think some of his “medical” complaints are due to Laurie being overprotective. She says he’s deaf, but ...
Aunty Depression - auntyd.wordpress.com
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Of Mouse and Man
8 hours ago
by cb
I probably picked the wrong clothes to go to work yesterday. I knew I was going to visit a house that had been kept in what might be called ‘less than sanitary conditions’. Although that is a fairly gross understatement. As a student accompanying me remarked as we approached the property – ‘There’s ...
Fighting Monsters - fightingmonsters.wordpress.com · Rank: 47,307 · 48 references
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The Singularity: Lying About Your Age
16 hours ago
by suelange
In 1867 Karl Marx reported: Potter,* the chosen mouthpiece of the manufacturers distinguishes two sets of “machinery,” each of which belongs to the capitalist, and of which one stands in his factory, the other at night-time and on Sundays is housed outside the factory, in cottages. The one is inanim ...
Singularity Watch - suelange.wordpress.com · 5 references
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Senior Reflections by Amy
19 hours ago
by Amy G
Anne Tyler, a keen observer and chronicler of human nature, explores the last phase of life in her latest, Noah’s Compass. Liam Pennywell, sixty-one and recently downsized from his teaching job, finds himself the victim of a botched burglary. Liam awakens in the hospital with no recollection of how ...
Books (and Beyond!) Blog - evldlib.wordpress.com
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My Eyeballs....
23 hours ago
by Dawn
Back in 2001 when I had my laser eye surgery I was 20/2000. Basically, I couldn't see shit, near or far. It was a problem and an inconvenience in so many ways and having the surgery changed my life. As I left the doctor's office that fateful day I was told that this is not a cure for what surely wil ...
Dawn's Scary Thoughts - dawnarmstrong.blogspot.com · Rank: 96,148
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You Are Only Old Once!
1 day ago
by toohotmamas
Hey, Wendy! First the Delany sisters and now this! Clearly, the best writers are old writers! I was just reading Green Eggs and Ham with my 6-year-old son, and some questions came up about Dr. Seuss. So, we Googled him. I did not know that Theodore Geisel’s (aka: Dr. Seuss) career as the writer we k ...
Toohotmamas's Blog - toohotmamas.wordpress.com
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Loneliness in the Retirement Facility
1 day ago
by hsachs
February 3 rd, – by Howard Most people living in such a retirement facility in their 80s have already experienced many losses. The most significant of these losses include husbands or wives or mates or life partners of some sort and are now living alone. And find this style of existence a lonely one ...
Howard's Weblog - hmsachs.wordpress.com
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