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 Remind me – why am I doing this?

  I cannot stop until it’s finished – whatever finished may be.

  I started early so as not to be late. It made no difference that I was slow.

  Now I’m tired and still don’t know – Why am I doing this?

  Remind me – Why did I say I would?

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BlueSkies
23.09.25 05:15 AM - Comment(s)

As I was making a pot of tea this morning, there came a knock at the kitchen door.  It brought to mind Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.”  The difference being that the tapping on Poe’s door came at midnight, and this was five o’clock in the morning. Hardly the time for a neighbor to come...

BlueSkies
09.09.25 10:05 AM - Comment(s)

We had been married less than a year.  My husband was just out of the U. S. Navy and attending the University of Texas at Arlington.  I was working for C. P. Waggoner Sales Company in Grand Prairie across the street from Chance-Vought.  As the saying was at the time, I was earning my ...

BlueSkies
14.08.25 03:08 AM - Comment(s)

Do you remember my telling you that I recently realized I was still eating for all the starving children in China?  I also realized this did nothing for the children and, as my father would say, made me “pleasingly plump”.

So-o-o, I decided to let the children in China fend for themselves. ...

BlueSkies
14.07.25 01:42 PM - Comment(s)