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Gabby
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Gabby

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Gabby, you shouldn’t worry about things you can’t control.

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Sometimes Something Happens
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Sometimes Something Happens

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Sometimes something happens and you just think, isn't that interesting.

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Decision in Ireland
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Decision in Ireland

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"Fleet a' mind is better than fleet a' foot," Colleen taunted him.

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Shaky Hands
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Shaky Hands

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My earliest memories are of family dinners. A distinct one occurred after my first day at St. Jerome Primary School. Father sat at the head of the table, between the dining room windows. Without a…

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Church Clothes
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Church Clothes

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“No, you can’t go like that! Shorts to church. No. No. No.”

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Champions
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Champions

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Why did he treat everything as a fresh fact, each time he mentioned it? Couldn't he just get on with it?

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Be Brave
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Be Brave

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College years are a time of great learning, yet not all lessons are academic.

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Honor the Ghost
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Honor the Ghost

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"You were at the wake. How could you steal from us?"

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Sunday Morning Coming Down
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Sunday Morning Coming Down

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When I said, "Hi, how you doing?" this attractive brunette with a flip hairdo looked at me as if I'd spoken a foreign language. She said something back that had a "ya" in it.

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Extreme Solution
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Extreme Solution

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Cookie's big head, mopped with black ringlets, poked through the empty windowpane of the abandoned streetcar.

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I worked in software design for thirty years, until I retired in 2010. Before that, there was a stint in the Marines, a job as a stock clerk for a data processing shop, and then college under the GI Bill. In the work force, I got trained in programming, moved up to tech analysis, and after night school at Johns Hopkins APL, shifted into software architecture and data warehousing. During those years, married with a growing family, I stuffed my ideas and projects into folders and file cabinets—for when I retired. Now, these years.

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I also post on the mind’s working. I’ve been a Mensan since 1973, studying the mind as an interested observer. Visit the Mental Construction site. How does neural characteristics of the brain affect our thinking? Mainly by abstraction, similarity, and association driving the non-logical aspects of our mind.

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