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hooleydd
May 17, 20203 min read
Cutting our Coronahair
Like most people, I’m a hapless headmower at best. I didn’t let my shortcomings deter me from cutting my husband’s hair though. His...
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hooleydd
Apr 19, 20202 min read
The Upside of Emotional Eating
Liver and onions? Really? A friend told me about this women serving a dinner of liver and onions to a man on their first date. The...
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hooleydd
Apr 12, 20203 min read
Remembering an Easter Story During the Coronavirus Plague
The Flannel Graph board was mounted on an easel, and as Sister Gibson recounted the Bible story, she’d press paper cut-out Bible figures...
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hooleydd
Mar 29, 20203 min read
Retreating from Coronavirus
Circle the wagons! We’re in retreat! This wagon (me) has been circling and circling my living room the past couple weeks, building...
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hooleydd
Mar 15, 20203 min read
Corona virus, Shopping Sprees, and Misadventures with a Bat
“What’s with people hoarding toilet paper?” my daughter asked me over the phone. She’d called to check up on her dad. “I’m not sure. ...
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hooleydd
Jan 12, 20203 min read
What I saw at the border with Mexico …
At first I saw the man sitting with a friend in a couple of lawn chairs on the other side of the river. They were chatting under some...
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hooleydd
Nov 26, 20192 min read
Never Call Aunt Ruth a Turkey Bag
But this doesn’t have to be another Thanksgiving you nod off chatting with Aunt Ruth because you were up at dawn stuffing the turkey. ...
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hooleydd
Oct 9, 20192 min read
Fifteen Minutes of Fame is Best
(What’s in your toothpaste? Why should we remember David Crosby? Whose buried on our farm? How many statues of Lenin are there in...
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hooleydd
Sep 24, 20193 min read
Marijuana
“Oh,” I laughed nervously, “I think I’ll pass”. My date, a thin hairy guy, reached across me to give the bong to the person sitting on...
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hooleydd
Aug 27, 20192 min read
Fired Up and Ready to Go to Alaska
Alaska has been hit by global warming. Still, there’s a question as to whether Alaskans think that’s the problem. My daughter commented...
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hooleydd
Jul 23, 20193 min read
Electing an honest man . . .
About once a week, I wake up in the morning, drink a cup of coffee, and read a poem or two. I like poetry: wit and emotion condensed...
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hooleydd
Jul 9, 20192 min read
Rape in a Religious Community
My first thought was how could this happen? This was a respected religious community. My second thought was why didn’t the women go to...
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hooleydd
Jun 11, 20193 min read
Feeling the Affects of Chernobyl in Idaho
Watching HBO’s miniseries about the nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, I thought of my grandmother Verna. She died of...
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hooleydd
May 21, 20192 min read
Hanging on to Democracy
“Could it be a meteor? Maybe a little chunk of meteor rock fell from the sky into my back window,” I suggested. He looked at me...
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hooleydd
Apr 16, 20192 min read
The Baptists and Abortion
So, the Baptists, in general, were cautiously supportive of a woman’s right to abortion. As a former Baptist, I find this fascinating. I...
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hooleydd
Jan 31, 20193 min read
Drinking, Stealing, and Lying–Oh My!
In my dream what made me feel most guilty was not that I’d stolen a can of beer, but the lie I told after that. I tried to explain away...
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