Holidays and Celebrations

  • Vegas Baby

    / May 23, 2006

    I spent the weekend in Vegas.   The first night I spent alone.  The first thing I saw from the plane was the pyramid Luxor, beaming a spotlight straight into the sky.  I got out…

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  • Sparkle

    / February 17, 2006

    I am a spoken for woman.  Enfianced.  A ball-and-chain in the making, a bride-to-be, one half of an old married couple in its pre-married days.  As of February 14, 2006, I have been…

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  • Hey

    / January 8, 2006

    Lyric for today: Workin’ 9 to 5 what a way to make a living And it’s . . .bum de dum . . . la la, It’s all TAKIN and no givin And…

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  • Christmas with the Wisconsin Fam

    / December 27, 2005

    A snapshot –   My brother just finished pounding out made up songs on our piano (he is a gifted pianist, with the somewhat tiresome caveat that every piece must be fast and…

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  • Merry Christmas

    / December 22, 2005

    Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool.Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school.To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to…

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