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For my many fans
If you like my thoughts and observations on this experience we call “life,” please send your comments and questions to my email resas.pieces.blog@gmail.com. (I must say, as a retired English teacher, it bothers me that email wouldn’t let me use ‘s with my name. You can take the woman out of the class, but you…
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Blog #9–Three of the “darndest” things I’ve seen, so far, in my life.
”When you’re born, you get a ticket to a freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.” These are the words of George Carlin, standup comic and social critic. I don’t find this negative. There’s much to be learned from living in a freak show and the loyalty that goes…
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Blog#8–Huzzah! Kansas City Renaissance Festival
”Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.” My quotation comes from one of the real stars of the Renaissance, William Shakespeare. You’ve probably heard of some of the others from this cultural era between the 14th and 17th centuries—big names like Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Not a…
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Resa’s Pieces#7–Elon, Ada, and Me
September 3, 2023 ”That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.” If you thought that quotations was from Elon Musk, I fooled you. It comes from Ada Lovelace, born in 1815. She made it possible for Elon to achieve many of his accomplishments and also for the rest of…
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Resa’s Pieces #6–How to be invisible
It’s pretty easy. No magic spells or potions. You don’t even really have to try. All you have to do is get older, and that can be liberating. “What a pleasant life could be had in this world, by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm…
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Resa’s Pieces—the mysterious #3
Author’s note—I was told WordPress was easy for a beginning blogger. If you’re among the lucky few who have visited my blog, you may have wondered why #3 was at the top of the page. Me too! Now it seems to have disappeared all together except for the title. Don’t you just love this digital…
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Resa’s Pieces #5–Striper
July 7, 2023 That’s with one “p.” Removing your clothes or paint has two “p’s.” At least, I got your attention. Striper is my cat who has, as you might guess, black stripes on basically white fur. Mark Twain had lots of quotations about cats. His daughter Susie said, “Mama loves morals and Papa loves…
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Resa’s Pieces #4–Every Family has its own language
June 25, 2023 I spent much of my life with Mark Twain, studying him, writing and speaking about him. Unlike what many of my students may have thought, I didn’t personally know him. My loss and his. What he thinks of me I don’t know. Perhaps I’ll learn one day. He did state, “Heaven for…
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Piece 2
“You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them.” From the great Nora Ephron who accomplished many “things.”…
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Resa’s Pieces 1
“It’s always something,” said Roseanne Roseannadanna, the great character created by Gilda Radner on the 80’s Saturday Night Live. “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings” from Mansfield Park, Jane Austen’s third novel published in 1814. You may be more familiar with the movie versions; there have been four of them. The universal…
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