A wish list for 2012

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Friday, November 7. 2008
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By Susan Harper

Election Day is barely behind us, and I am already planning for the next election season, because win, lose, or draw, I would like for the whole experience to be different. I believe our health and sanity are at stake here. Elections may be shortening our lives.
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Now, how much did that cost?

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Wednesday, September 24. 2008
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Well, well, well — we all woke up one day last week to discover that we’d lost, um, quite a bit of money. In fact, I rather lost track, didn’t you?

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A man who talks to animals

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Wednesday, September 10. 2008
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By Susan Harper

Last weekend my cousin Howie came to visit us — a rare and special treat, as he lives in Oregon and stays pretty busy there. Howie runs a national scholarship program for a large corporation, providing educational support to under-represented students (a.k.a. minorities), a category which, he notes, is expected to include caucasians like him within the next 10 years. “Fine by me,” he adds happily. “I think it’s great. It’s what America is all about. Mix it up!”

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Politics as a spectator sport

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Wednesday, August 27. 2008
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I have friends — and I don’t just mean guy friends — who are fanatic about football. I know not to call them Saturday or Sunday afternoons during the football season. If I do, and if they even hear the phone and answer it, I’ll hear the roar of the fans in the background, like a heavy surf, and the announcer’s voice in the foreground, and our conversation will be punctuated with interruptions while the friend I have called turns away from the phone and talks, via TV screen, to the men on the football field, telling them what to do.

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Let's all take a money bath

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Thursday, July 31. 2008
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By Susan Harper

As I tiptoe toward my 65th birthday, I’m getting an awful lot of mail about the vital decisions I’ll have to make, sooner or later — some of them sooner — regarding Medicare. “There are so many choices!” the brochures exclaim. “How will you compare plans?” And, more ominously, “What should you be doing now?” Do I know? Honestly, it’s almost enough to interfere with my sleep.

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And The Cat Came Back

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Wednesday, July 23. 2008
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By Susan Harper

Sitting at my parents’ breakfast table a few weeks ago, I commented on the fact that I hadn’t seen “that cat” in a while. I was referring to a feral black cat which had crossed our garden paths often enough in the past year to bring us all lots of bad luck if we believed in that sort of thing, which of course we don’t. I believed, in fact, that the cat was bringing us good luck by keeping the local mouse population down. My parents observed in an off-hand way that they hadn’t seen the cat lately, either, and we thought no more about it.
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Blood is thicker than anything

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Wednesday, July 16. 2008
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By Susan Harper

Twenty years ago I was reading an issue of Poets & Writers Magazine when I came across a review of a book of poetry by Leonard Trawick. I sat down and wrote him a letter saying that my grandmother, Mera Trawick, had told her grandchildren that we did not come from a large family. “If you meet folks whose last name is Trawick,” she used to say, “be sure to introduce yourself; they’re most likely kin to you.”
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The sound of things falling apart

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Thursday, July 10. 2008
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I have been having “one of those days” for over a month now, and I’m ready for it to be over. I feel like Calamity Jane — everything I touch seems to fall apart or blow up or just simply quit working.

My sister has said for years that she has a strange effect on what you might call pieces of equipment — cars, computers, things like that. She was driving a Mercedes one day when its radio decided to start playing at top volume and serenade everyone in an office park with Spanish music. No one could turn the radio off, and in the end the car was towed to its dealership with all the windows rolled up, still blaring Latin tunes. [ Full Story » ] 

How to get naked in public

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Wednesday, July 2. 2008
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By Susan Harper

Wishing you could shed your inhibitions just once and do something outrageous? Always had a hankering to find out what it was like to be a nudist? The solution to all of this might be waiting for you right in your own front yard — literally.
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Something's lost and something's gained

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Wednesday, June 4. 2008
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In church last Sunday, I was so moved by one of the hymns that I started to cry and then found it difficult to stop, and I realized that I felt weighed-down by sorrow over all that we'd lost, here in Commerce, in a single week.
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