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Wastelander
Here’s a poem for a change, one I will not worry about publishing, so it’ll end up only appearing here. It’s a kind of old, abandoned one from when I was playing Fallout 3 and was haunted by taking a dark path. Wastelander I am a wastelander,glowing with dangerous insanityin clothes pried off imaginary corpses.…
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Took my EV across the state line
So I was a little bit hesitant to take my car out of state and, granted, the availability of charging isn’t what it is where I live in metro Atlanta but, as you can see from the above photo, the demand isn’t either. When I arrived, a large gas-powered truck was parked in the shadiest…
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Tranquil Gardens and what I’m reading
It trips me out that they named a neighborhood after the retirement home that used to be there: Tranquil Gardens Nursing Home and Memory Care. And it didn’t merely close. It closed with very little warning — just three days, according to the AJC — to the patients and family members, not to mention the…
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What to do when you see a turtle crossing the road
Help it, of course! I did that this morning while on the way to the farmer’s market. I stopped, put on the hazard lights, got out, gently grabbed it on both sides of its shell and took it where it was headed. It was a decent sized turtle, not a mammoth but certainly not the…
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Ways to escape record heat
I started taking a long nap during the day as soon as I got off work when we had the stretch of near 100-degree temperatures, to mixed reviews. My son didn’t at first understand what I was trying to do and would come by to try to convince me to take him somewhere. But it…
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Milestones
Time is groaning on. I found out earlier this week that one of my former copy editor co-workers died last month. I guess considering his many and lengthy health problems, it was good he was able to live to the ripe old age of 61, but still, it was sobering to know that he was…
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Kimberly L. Wright 