My brother and I would get the plastic baskets that berries came in, tie strings to them, and have all kinds of fun sending our toys up and down the elevator

Crop art entry, at least

I read this story with my late mother's voice in my head saying "okay, so first of all, if you had the sense that God gave geese you wouldn't be going to take a shower right before you left the house, now, would you? Just asking for pneumonia to go outside with a wet head in the winter..."

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The mundane things we need to do to support our true calling as bleacher drummers....

Sorry I didn't make it into work in time to see you - but you all sounded great!

A wonderful memory from just before the pandemic: the day I and thousands of other Bay Area commuters met a pony on public transit www.kqed.org/news/1178550...

Inside most uninsulated rentals with pathetic gas wall heaters?

Everyone would be messaging you and you'd never be able to hibernate again

When I was very little, my older brother convinced me that all of the road signs that said DO NOT PASS actually said DONUT PASS and were indications that there was a donut shop nearby. Upper Midwest early 1960s....

I abandoned my medical career after discovering that premed chemistry required me to light a Bunsen burner with matches. And having lit the Bunsen burners, to make pipettes by melting glass tubing and tying off the ends, which I thought was stupid because surely we could buy them premade.

The Pope is really the only person who should wear this one:
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A friend and I went to see that very film and realized as we reached the box office that neither of us knew what the actual title was. She asked the ticket seller for "the new movie with Leo DiCaprio" but the ticket seller didn't know. I had to go back to the sidewalk and check the marquee.

I was curious about the "eggs, convent fashion" in the Dundee Courier menu and found this recipe for sliced hard-boiled eggs and onions in a white sauce over toast. Is it "convent fashion" because cheap, or as a compensation for other carnal pleasures?

I was one of them - I loved the shows and her voice, and the majestic music which opened the program which I thought she must have written. As a teenager I was in the car with my mom listening to MPR and it came on, I said "Mom, it's the Planetarium music!" She said "that's Ravel's Bolero, honey".

Yup, I've worked in public radio since 1978 and a version of this dispute was going on even then.

That's exactly what happened in the Pioneer League postseason