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Death on the beach

October 20, 2010

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I am not cut out to be a murderer, I thought, as I dragged the garbage bag of corpses along the path.  Whoever came up with the phrase “dead weight” knew what she was talking about.  I stopped to catch my breath.  Mickey had helped, of course, but he’d gone home to wash off the […]

Post pantry

October 19, 2010

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Women Warriors at the Amvets Hall I went to the Antrim County High Tea for Breast Cancer Prevention fundraiser on Sunday because Louan asked me to. After all, she said, if it hadn’t been for the services and support offered by that group she’d be, well, dead. That seemed like a pretty good reason, so […]

“All the parts of my life are here”

October 14, 2010

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That’s what Louan said on Sunday, looking around at the crowd of musicians, actors, artists, lawyers, writers, designers, printers, poets, old hippies, the kids from Mrs. LaPan’s kindergarten class at Holy Angels Elementary . . . you get the idea. Those of you from Away might find all this a little less compelling than those […]

Seven feet tall and it’s gone missing?

October 9, 2010

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The Elk Rapids Garden Club is looking for a missing Blue Star Memorial Marker that was placed somewhere along US-31 in Elk Rapids after WWII. The stone marker is seven feet tall, four feet wide and four feet in depth with a brass plaque.

Pelicans to the rescue?

October 6, 2010

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Yesterday Lois Dawson called to tell me that she had seen some pelicans socializing with the other waterbirds up on the pond near Atwood.

The Power of Pink

October 3, 2010

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I know, I know, the whole Awareness thing was supposed to be last week, but I’m just getting a Round Tuit and until I had that I couldn’t do a post.  The whole idea of Awareness is that it is supposed to help us do the things we can do to fight @$^* Invasive Species.  […]