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It's a Hat Party - Breast Cancer Awareness
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We celebrated the last of my six chemotherapy treatments and forty-seven radiation treatments with a hat party. Actually, it was a surprise hat party for me as my neighbor broke into my house and everyone was waiting there after I... Continue reading
Posted Sep 13, 2022 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Miles for Mammograms - Links and Suggestions
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The Family HealthCare Clinic in Bartlesville has provided 37 mammogram coupons to patients this year. This represents over $30,000 in free breast cancer screening services to people in Washington, Osage, and Nowata counties. Miles for Mammograms supports the clinic's ability... Continue reading
Posted Sep 6, 2022 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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This Is Why We Run - Miles For Mammograms
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Our Miles for Mammograms co-chairs this year are sisters, Rosemary Whitson and Laurie Marshall. Read Rosemary and Laurie's story HERE. Continue reading
Posted Sep 1, 2022 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Kellond Part 2: Crawdads and Pocket Knives
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Living at the Kellond teacherage had many perks for a kid growing up. There was the playground with a thirty foot slide (okay, maybe not thirty, but to a five-year old it might as well have been a ninety foot... Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2021 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Kellond Part 1 The Rock Wall & Playground
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Many of my previous posts have mentioned Kellond School. That's because Kellond is the first place I remember as my home. So, it was a special day to return to my old stomping grounds and be given a personal tour... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2021 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Chili and Crackers and Peaches . . . Yes, Peaches . . . Canned Peaches
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Winter-time temperatures bring back memories of homemade chili. You know. those days when you go outside and take a deep breath and icicles form on the inside of your nostrils. Those are the kind of winter-time temps I'm talking about.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2021 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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If Knowledge Is Power . . .
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"If knowledge is power, then what we don't know is wisdom." ----Adam Grant Every once in awhile I take the time to share a book I'm reading or have read. Non-fiction is my genre of choice, so this book fits... Continue reading
Posted Feb 8, 2021 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Title and Author of This Book Revealed Later
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After a bumpy flight, fifteen men dropped from the Montana sky. They weren't skydivers. They were smokejumpers: elite wild land firefighters parachuting in to extinguish a forest fire started by lightning the day before. In a matter of minutes, they... Continue reading
Posted Feb 4, 2021 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Nature Deficit Disorder = You're Not Going to Melt, Cupcake
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On a field trip with Pops. If there can be anything positive about this pandemic . . . sheltering in . . . quarantining . . . keeping six feet from another human . . . one thing might be... Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2021 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Happy Birthday to My Youngest - Part 1 (Officially on January 22)
Happy 40th Birthday, in advance Brookie ! There are so many photos, so many stories, so many memories . . . this post is in two parts. Reposted from about thirteen years ago. A Happy Birthday Post to My Youngest... Continue reading
Posted Jan 21, 2021 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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I Feel the Need to Write a Lesson Plan
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They call them 'teachable moments.' I lived for them, and at one time, I had a captive audience: my students . . . and my two daughters who also didn't have a choice to escape. They still don't. It's at... Continue reading
Posted Jan 19, 2021 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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How Safe Are Your Fur Babies Tonight ?
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Dear HansMan ! The mystery as to what happened to your house shoe has been solved. Check out the video at the bottom of this post. Many pet owners will spend New Year's Day looking for their beloved fur babies.... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Memories of Redstone, Colorado. Christmas 2020
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Moon over the clock tower. 6:00 p.m. Christmas Eve - 2020 Redstone, Colorado is known as “The Ruby of the Rockies." (red sandstone cliffs) It is a tiny mountain town nestled about sixteen miles south of Carbondale in the Elk... Continue reading
Posted Dec 25, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Our Christmas Card to You . . . "It's Christmas Time at the Schmoldt House"
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Sung to Silver Bells . . . All together now . . . and a 1, and a 2, and a . . . Christmas tree lights. Holiday lights. Hung in tangled-up style. In the air there's a feeling of... Continue reading
Posted Dec 21, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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When Homelessness Has a Name
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H-A-N-K . . . That name would be Hank. Most of my blog posts are random and have no specific goal in mind other than to entertain me, myself, and I. And to document places I've been so I can... Continue reading
Posted Dec 20, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Menorah . . . Hanukkah
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Even after a year, I'm still giggling about what my friend said to me when I asked her, "Is this Christmas garland yours?" She replied, "Nope Kathy, that's not my Christmas garland. I'm Jewish. Remember?" This post is my attempt... Continue reading
Posted Dec 16, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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War of the Roses...I Mean War of the Poinsettias
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Today's post concerns the pronunciation of this plant: Poyn-seh-TEE-uh? Poyn-seh-ah ? For over twenty years the holiday season brings with it a bit of discourse between theHansMan and me. on several different levels. One level is, simply stated, we don't... Continue reading
Posted Dec 11, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Devil's Kitchen, Hotel Maverick, Grand Junction, Colorado
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Back in the days when we used to travel, I loved writing about places we visited, especially about restaurants. It was my way of journaling. Actually, it was my way of remembering where we had been. It was my own... Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Captions, Comments and/or Questions ?!?!
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Just a random day here at The Asylum. I was looking for a particular photo and came across these. Maybe one of them will make you smile . . . or at least go . . . h-m-m-m-m-m-m ! Any... Continue reading
Posted Dec 9, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Thanksgiving Cactus or Christmas Cactus ? There Is A Difference !
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There really is a Thanksgiving cactus AND a Christmas cactus. Who knew ? I just always thought my Christmas cactus was an over-achiever and bloomed early. If your Christmas cactus bloomed at Thanksgiving, then it's probably not a Christmas cactus... Continue reading
Posted Dec 8, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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O Christmas Tree . . . O Christmas Tree . . . Achoo !
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Visualize Clark Griswold and his family in that scene from Christmas Vacation when they all go out to find the perfect Christmas tree. I actually lived that scene when I was about ten years old. Just exactly like that. Well,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 6, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Anode Systems Official Greeter . . . The Rest of the Story
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The person nine-month old PeekaBoo appears to be attacking is Danny, our truck driver for E Trucking. Danny was at our office to pick up several pallets of anodes we were shipping to our customers. Danny is a veteran having... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Rob Corddry, The Daily Show . . . and Me
This popped up the other day. Not sure why. IMDb (Internet Movie Database) Rewind to September 28, 2004. Seems like yesterday. The night when this aired, and again on November 11, 2004, my phone started ringing. When I answered, people... Continue reading
Posted Nov 29, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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Facebook: Post the Seventh Photo on Your Phone
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This past week, the trending Facebook 'request' was to post the seventh photo on your phone, with no explanation. Every time I found my seventh photo, something distracted me, so I never played the game and posted it. Those distractions... Continue reading
Posted Nov 29, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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How Not to Go Crazy During COVID Season
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It's always been an objective of mine to try to be productive in some form or fashion everyday. Now, in my dictionary, productivity can be defined in many ways. There is usually always a checklist involved. As each task is... Continue reading
Posted Nov 28, 2020 at Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes
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