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Blackwing Pencils…

    The Blackwing pencil’s origins were in the 1930s and first produced by the Eberhard Faber  Pencil Company. In 1998, with the usual issue with corporate acquisitions, it was discontinued. In 2008, the California Cedar Products Company, acquired the … Continue reading

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Special thoughts on June 30th…

  Today my mom’s flowers, flowers I acquired and brought with me from Ohio, are blooming. That wonderful, wild and crazy poppy is blooming for the first time this season. It is blooming in the main flowerbed behind the house, … Continue reading

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Payman and the Art Exhibition

A delightful evening was had by all last night as a contingent of the Oakton College ESL Conversation Hour got together to support one of our group, Payman Shay(kholeslam), at this début showing of his art at the gallery at … Continue reading

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Linden time!

It is June 20th and this is the first day that I have noticed that wonderful fragrance donated to us from Nature Mama (thank you, Anna Ori Koerner) and the beautiful linden tree. It took me years, and I do … Continue reading

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Bradley Fields, my academics before high school, and a trip to NYC

I am not sure how I even met, Bradley Fields. I think it was because I was friends with a young man, named Dale Druckenbrod. I knew Dale from Junior High School. I had gone to school in Parma, Ohio … Continue reading

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