(1) YOU HAVE MADE NOT JUST MY DAY BUT THE REST OF MY LIFE!!

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Reply:

Hi there Anonymous. You can read in Wikipedia about my mother -- children's poet Ernestine Cobern Beyer -- and you will find that she credits Jeeves (the butler in P. G. Wodehouse novels) with giving her subconscious mind whole stanzas and titles -- for instance, Birthington's Washday.*

This is why I got a big kick out of hearing that you accidentally found me when you consulted Askjeeves.

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Reply: I did stop by for a visit and can see that you have a lot going  on there. Thank you so much for calling my blog interesting. My son Tim was the one who suggested it when he saw how disappointed I was with yet another rejection of a manuscript submitted to a publisher. I bless him daily for making my older years so exciting and fulfilling.

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Reply: I never expected to see the word "masterpiece" in connection with my blog.  You have made not just my day but the rest of my life!  I'll copy and paste this exchange so I can show it to daughter Kathie.

I Googled internet radio but didn't know which site was associated with you.  I'll try to figure it out.

(2) ATTENTION BLOGGERS RE NEW SPEEDY REVERSE CHRONOLOGY

     It is now a long time since I first started publishing series of posts and several months since I started sharing what I'd learned with other bloggers.  There is a faster way to do this chronologically.  For example, if you have six posts ready to go, start with #6, the one dated most recently (the last shall be first) and click on Edit.  This will bring you to www.blogger.com (at very top of page.) Then click on Revert to draft above the post.  Click on that label name..  You will see that "Publish" is highlighted.  Click on Publish and the post will immediately go on its way.  Click on Close, which will return you to your six posts.  Follow this procedure with numbers 5 4 3 2 1 and your published series will end up as 123456. Trust me.  This works beautifully and will save you a lot of time. You can also easily schedule your posts for publication at a later time.
Update May 25, 2013
     Yesterday I re-published a long series of posts with the label Afloat and Ashore. It was supremely simple to do.  All I had to do was update the previous scheduling process to the current day and time
. . . a tip for other bloggers who decide to re-publish a series.
Update July 19, 2017
     Still having fun at almost 96 keeping this online journal and keeping me out of mischief. 😏

(3) DO YOU LOVE OR TOLERATE ANIMALS SUCH AS A RAMBUNCTIOUS GOAT?

Circa November 2013
     I have been feeling discouraged since my car willfully bumped up over a curb, not just once but three times in a row.  Getting the message at age 92, I have given up driving for the duration.
                  
                                    When to hang up your car keys. . . .

      It's likely that many of you don't realize you can take an active part in seeing these posts by clicking on their labels to the right of your screen.  For instance, are you interested in flying adventures?  Click on "ALOFT," which is among the alphabetized labels   Do you love or tolerate animals, such as a rambunctious goat?  Click on "ANIMAL TALES."  Are you a naive wife whose husband has been cheating for years?   In "ADRIFT," suicide is considered first, then murder.

October 22, 2015
      I am happy to see that several of today's visitors have done exactly what I suggested above, stopping by not only on the current post (Attention Visitors) but also clicking on other topics to the right of that post. Tomorrow I have an appointment with my audiologist to pick up my new hearing aids.  My daughter-in-law, Kathy, is taking me there.  Will let you know when I return if they work well enough to eliminate the question "What?" from my vocabulary.

November 21, 2015
       The hearing aids work very well.  And they thoughtfully let me know when a new battery is needed by playing the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

(4) WHITE HOUSE PEACE VIGIL

Don’t kid yourself. It ain’t over yet.

Posted on December 1, 2015 by kathiemm  engagingpeace.com
Note to visitors: Kathie Malley-Morrison is my amazing daughter.  An auto accident in 1965 when she was 25 resulted in a wheelchair life. Undaunted, she obtained her Master's degree and her Doctorate and became a psychology professor at B U.  Do go to the Internet and check out her very worthwhile blog at engagingpeace.com

     Thanksgiving is not over, at least not for me. I’m still giving thanks—not for all the benefits that come with white privilege, because they come at too high a cost for too many others—but for the people of all colors who fight for, work for, and live and die for peace. Today, when rabid voices howl with cries for war in countless caves across the nation, I give thanks to the volunteers for what is probably the longest peace vigil in US history—the White House Peace Vigil. This vigil began in 1981 as an anti-nuclear weapon vigil led by William Thomas, who was soon joined by Concepcion (“Connie”) Picciotto. Picciotto, an immigrant who arrived in the United States at the age of 18, has been described as “carrying on the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States.”    
     Now in her 70s, Piccioto has spent most of her time for over three decades in the “peace camp” —a white tent pitched in Lafayette Square across from the White House. She generally wears a helmet, because, she tells passersby, she has been hit in the head so often—generally by police. In 2013, when one of the volunteers left the tent area unguarded, the park police removed it. It was soon reinstalled and the vigil continues.     

Kathie Malley-Morrison, Professor of Psychology

www.engagingpeace.com