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    Master Charge

    Before I started my Civil Service job in 1980, I worked in the banking industry.  This included working in four different states and banks over about 13 years.  I held several positions, primarily as a line teller but also as…

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    House on Top of the Hill

    I have recurring dreams about the house on the hill.   It’s been 66 years since I was there, but in my dreams, I am walking the footpath that leads up to the clearing where the house sits among fruit…

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    Hole in the Floor of Heaven

    The son went hiking a few days ago to take photographs.  It was an overcast, cloudy day & he sent me this picture of one spot in the clouds where some blue shone through.  I called it a Hole in…

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    Happy Birthday Lile

    Some people you never forget. I’ve known Lile since the mid-80s when we worked together at a gift shop in Germany.  Lile was the manager & I worked evenings & weekends as a side job to my day job.  Besides…

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    Cat Caravan

    I’m a product of the ’50s, so when we rolled over into the ’60s, I was a teenager & that became my impression-making decade.    The music was the best because you could understand the words.  The singers didn’t look…