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  • For Letter Press Lovers

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    For Letter Press Lovers During the eight years I was married C.H. Wendel, he and Jim Daggs managed to guide me through the Printer’s Apprenticeship for Letter Press to the point that I was able to operate a Heidelberg Press,  an awesome Vandercook proof press and master some of the art of type setting with the…

  • My Life in Coffee Cups

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    My Life in Coffee Cups This may sound silly to some, but you could learn a lot about my life by just perusing my coffee cup collection. That is why I have decided to start a little coffee cup-based biography.  Over the years most of the places I visited with my spouse(s) or on business resulted…

  • Between the Pages

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    Between the Pages  Sometimes In our haste to “get on with it” We turn two pages at a time.  If they’re tightly stuck together and we are really in a hurry.We rush on-Continuing the story  Hardly realizing that something is missing.  Maybe we get pages and pages ahead before things don’t make sense.  Skipping pages…

  • Amana Days

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    Amana Days I have continued to think and rethink how to tell the story of my life with Chuck Wendel. He was a remarkable man, and though he became severely disabled less than a year after we married, he was a truly unique and intelligent gentleman. We often talked about how fortunate we were that…

  • College Plans

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    Many parents want their children to attend college. It is true that studies in the past have shown people with college degrees can earn a higher lifetime wage.  Today we have learned that it is becoming more and more rare to stay at the same job for life.  Technology is changing our world at warp speed. It…

  • Just For Laugh:Life Alert 2.0

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    New Post:  Laughter the Best Medicine The “lifeline” saga continues.  If you read my first post in the category, you learned the story of my false alarm on my “fall protection” device. While at the time, as it is most often looking back on the antics of pets or kids, it was not funny, I think you…

  • Just for Laughs

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    Remember reading that last page in Readers Digest with the jokes and funny stories? I think it was called Laughter is the Best Medicine. Life would be so dreary if we could not laugh with others and especially at ourselves. Sometimes when something happens it is not so funny but looking back you can find…

  • Kitchen Table Poetry

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    I have been writing poetry for many years. It is not in the tradition of Longfellow or Frost, but a sort of free the way I feel at the time. Just a piling on of words. I have an entire book of it, added to over the years, that I have mostly shared with a…

  • What’s in a name?

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    When I was a little girl and we went to visit my mother’s parents, I was taught to call them Mother Dearest, and Daddy Bill, not Grandma and Grandpa. I have often wondered if this practice has continued in various ways. I have chosen to be called Grandma Judy, mostly because my grandchildren have a…

  • Why I Teach

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    Chapter One: I never planned to be a teacher. A summary of my life story is well captured in this quote by John Lennon: Life is what happenswhen you are busy making other plans. I was born in 1942 and went to school in the 50’s. Women who sought a career had few choices in…