Barbara J. Hamby

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Pills for Thought

As a senior citizen, I take a certain number of prescription medicines. Some of them have outrageous prices. Fortunately, my health insurance pays part of the cost or I wouldn’t be able to afford them. The cost of the health insurance keeps rising also, but that’s another subject.

My rant, at present, is the practice of pharmaceutical companies… click here to continue

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January, 23rd, 2005

Visitors

We have a house full of two grandchildren of Al’s and their dad, his oldest son. They brought CD’s full of old family pictures which have been scanned to help preserve them. Al is enjoying the slide shows.

The girls are being kept up past their usual bedtime in the hope they may sleep in. They are delighted… click here to continue

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January, 21st, 2005

Weekend Entertainment

As a busy week nears its end, I will offer a few lines for the weblog before I collapse mindlessly in front of the television.

I took a nap this afternoon after my chiropractic treatment so I’d have energy to bustle around and tuck things away that might injure Al’s youngest grandchildren or vice versa.
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January, 20th, 2005

Romancing the Web

Because the word “Romance” is in the title of my latest book, I believe, I was invited to join an online writers’ group that consists mostly of romance writers. At first, I thought I would just lurk for a while and then maybe bow out, because romance is not my genre.

However, this group has invited published, best-selling… click here to continue

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January, 19th, 2005

Employment History

Today I finished the draft of my employment history. Nearly sixty years crammed into 28 pages, 8,400 words. I think condensing it into that space must be why it took me so long to produce so few words. Some writers can grind out that many words in a few hours.

There will be editing required and I may… click here to continue

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January, 18th, 2005

Take a Letter or Letters

For several years I have packed around a large plastic tub full of letters to and from family and friends. Several times I’ve started sorting them, then overwhelmed, abandoned the project.

Now I’m working on memoirs and my ancient memory is very fallible. So, in desperation, I’ve resumed re-reading and sorting letters to and from my three sisters… click here to continue

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January, 17th, 2005

A Taller Monitor

Al was taking measurements to construct a platform for my computer monitor when a light bulb snapped on in my head. Since I’m using phone books as a temporary measure to achieve the best height for my posture, I could just fancy them up a little and continue to use them. So we taped two books together and I wrapped… click here to continue

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January, 16th, 2005

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