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Pursuit of Happiness: 12/01/12
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Saturday, December 1, 2012. Sally of Monticello: Founding Mother. Complete novel available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback). The story continues…. 8220;Forever Abigail,” Thomas mumbled. We were in the entrance hall of Langeac. He’d sat to read letters just delivered by the artist, John Trumbull. Mr. Short was settling our new guest in his room, where Jimmy and I had helped carry some of the artist’s paraphernalia. 8220;A materials order? 8221; I asked. 8220;I’ll take care of it, Thomas.”. 8220;Yes, tha...
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Pursuit of Happiness: 10/20/12
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Saturday, October 20, 2012. Critics of Slaveholder Jefferson. Are Prisoners of a Time Warp. Few negatives about Thomas Jefferson come through louder and clearer than criticism of his having owned slaves. So did other presidents, but Jefferson’s writings on liberty have made him appear hypocritical. In that time. And place, however, slaveholding didn’t look quite so onerous—except to slaves. As he observed many years later, slavery was like seizing a wolf by the ears—“we can neither hold him n...Present-d...
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Pursuit of Happiness: 11/17/12
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Saturday, November 17, 2012. 8216;Hungry for More’ About Sally. The cover story of The New York Times’s. On Sunday, November 11, 2012, was an evaluation of Jon Meacham’s The Art of Power. An acclaimed treatment of Jefferson’s political methods. Jill Abramson, executive editor of the Times,. Sally of Monticello: Founding Mother. Complete novel available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback). The story continues…. Thomas held my upper arms to steady me. “We’ve waited too long,” he said. I blubbered, “Th...
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October | 2012 | Donna Louise
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I swear I don't know how these things happen to me. Archives for the month of: October, 2012. Laquo; Older Entries. October 31, 2012. Donna Louise here putting the candy in bowls to give out tonight when the little monsters visit. Not many people in the ‘hood have children so I will hand out candy to the few little ones on the block before I turn off my porch light and withdraw to the upstairs for the evening if I decide to stay at home. Categories Humor, Daily Diary. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. Donna ...
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September | 2012 | Donna Louise
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I swear I don't know how these things happen to me. Archives for the month of: September, 2012. Laquo; Older Entries. September 30, 2012. Dressed in my old jeans and a sweatshirt, I gathered my gardening tools, my work gloves (a lovely lilac color), my matching garden hat and shoes and my weed eater and headed out the front door. The cool morning air was invigorating. Excuse me, young lady. Aren’t you forgetting something? Excuse me, you with the yappy dog. Aren’t you forgetting something? No, you don’t.
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Pursuit of Happiness: 11/03/12
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Saturday, November 3, 2012. Residents in the area of Ottawa, Kansas, will have an opportunity to take part in the popular continuing education course about Thomas Jefferson the University of Kansas sponsors. Offered as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning series, Explaining the. Will be on the schedule at Ottawa April 9, 16, and 23, 2013—all Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 pm The site will be the campus of the University of Ottawa. Sally of Monticello: Founding Mother. The story continues…. In Thomas’s absen...
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Z Words: Brush Strokes
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From zag to zymotic. Tuesday, June 17, 2014. I realize how much in awe I am of artists like Monet, Van Gogh and Seurat. Imagine painting a subject- and you are close enough to your canvas to use small brush strokes, and yet your subject comes alive with light and dark and shape and line, and we see it as a complete work. That's what it's like sometimes to write a long work- or even a short one. You concentrate on the small brush strokes that you hope lead to the big story, the big picture.
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Z Words: February 2012
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From zag to zymotic. Monday, February 27, 2012. I hope vampires are still in. Because I'm rewriting a NaNo story from a couple of years ago and it's got vampires. One sexy, ambivalent alpha male and one ancient, evil, I-want-to-rule-the-world beeyotch. Autism: The Growing Up Part. My son is autistic. He's high-functioning, but not Aspergers. What's the difference? He still has no math skills at all. He will probably always need help handling money. He's 21. Almost ready to age out of the school system.
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