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Welcome to Questionable Salad – a place for stories, thoughts and ideas, not to mention a place for me to work to be the best writer I can be. Thanks for visiting – you’re no longer a stranger, so stop by any time. 🙂
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Truth & Honesty
I watch the CBS Mornings News every day if possible. I even record it on our DVR, so I don’t have to miss anything if I don’t have time to watch on any particular day. In 2020 they started a segment called “Kindness 101” with Steve Hartman and his kids E– and M–. I love…
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Bookworm
One day when I was four years-old, I said to my Mom, “Will you teach me to read?” Mom sat down in the chair pictured, with me on her lap, and taught me to read about Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff and all their friends. At that time the chair looked a little different with…
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Pet Peeves
Did you know . . . The term “pet peeve” was popularized in part by the cartoonist that created the comic strip “Gasoline Alley?” A “peeve” is basically an annoyance and your pet peeve is personal to you – not everyone gets as annoyed as you. Here are a few of my pet peeves: Jewlery…
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Punkin
Many of my earliest memories center around my sister. She was nearly ten years old when I made my debut and according to family stories, she was elated to have a second real baby to care for. In many ways she was a second mother to me through those formative years. It was her prickly…
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Help!
I am a Type I Diabetic. Some of you may already know this, but there are plenty just getting to know me who did not know before now. In my many years of dealing with Diabetes I’ve found that many friends and acquaintances don’t know a whole lot about the disease and are reticent to…
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Grandma’s Doilies – Part III
I wish I could tell you more about Grandma Sophie, but the truth is, I know very little in the whole scheme of things. I am a little jealous of people that have the pleasure of knowing their grandparents, especially if they know them as adults. One of my grandfathers died shortly before I was…
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We Interrupt This Story . . .
It amazes me to think it was two years ago this month that our family soldthe house my parents built in Moab nearly 60 years ago. It doesn’t seem thatlong ago, yet it seems like forever since I’ve made the drive that was a nearweekly event in 2020. Moab has been in the news this…
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Grandma’s Doilies – Part II
August 16, 2022 I’ve been sucked down the rabbit hole that is Ancestry.com again. This time I was surprised with a 100 year-old picture that has whispers of my mother’s and my faces. Before today I had never seen what Grandma Sophie looked like as a young lady. I have an old photograph of her…
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Grandma’s Doilies – Part I
In the dawn of the 20th century, Anna and Charles Shallman of Dorris, Minnesota brought a little girl, Sophia, into the world. She made her entrance just days after the first Nobel Prize ceremony was held in Sweden and within months of the birth of Greats such as Enrico Fermi, Marlene Dietrich, Louis Armstrong and…
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Memory Glue
Have you ever noticed smells can act like glue for memories? You may not have thought of a particular person, place or event for years on end, then you smell something that suddenly brings it all back. Petrichor Petrichor is a fancy term for one of my favorite things. That smell when the summer thunder…