As a high school and college student during most of the Vietnam War, I was consumed by the drill team, dating, and studying-not the nightly news.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2020 @ 5:47 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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It started with a column for a local paper. That's when I discovered how much I enjoyed writing. That's when I discovered my passion. Then came a book co-written with my dog. (What, doesn't everyone do that?)
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 @ 11:31 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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That's a lyric by Ian Tyson, a singer/songwriter whose music my husband enjoys.
Published: Saturday, May 16th, 2020 @ 8:06 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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The News Media is allowed to change words.
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2020 @ 10:32 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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It is inappropriate for a man to compliment a woman at work on her appearance.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 @ 9:35 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Some people are arrested for violating other's rights and other people are instead allowed to go to the White House and insult the President of these United States.
Published: Thursday, April 30th, 2020 @ 1:34 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Marijuana is being promoted as good for you. People who want to believe it "believe" it. People who have a financial interest in marijuana "believe" it. Doctors don't believe it.
Published: Saturday, April 25th, 2020 @ 3:23 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The White House Coronavirus Press Briefings Are Interesting to A Lot Of People. Too Bad It's Not Interesting To The White House Press Corps.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2020 @ 12:05 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Please! Can I see some news other than Coronavirus News?...Please! Can I see some news other than Coronavirus News?...Please! Can I see some news other than Coronavirus News?
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2020 @ 10:47 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Italy stands out of this Coronavirus Pandemic as the Worst Case Example. Their problems started long before 2020.
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2020 @ 9:46 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The dawn on Sunday, proclaimed the new day in a whisper.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 @ 10:02 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Most of my regular readers know that I almost sold the rabbitpatch, not once, but twice in the last two years.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 @ 6:37 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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In my cozy mystery series, the main character owns a Great Pyrenees named Dickens, but not just any Pyr.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 @ 8:39 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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The very next day, after Miss J, accepted my offer - her real estate agent called me.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 11:06 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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Automotive Commercials Used To Be Hard To Create But Not Anymore.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 9:25 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Back at the rabbitpatch, all was well. The boxer did his "homecoming dance" and Christopher Robin "sang for his supper" as he always does, the minute I arrive.
Published: Friday, March 27th, 2020 @ 8:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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At this chaotic and fearful time, when things seem "up in the air" . . . spring came early, like an old friend showing up in the "nick of time."
Published: Friday, March 27th, 2020 @ 12:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is early morning now and pitch dark at the rabbitpatch. I seldom let an opportunity to complain about "changing the clocks" go by.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 @ 3:48 am
By: Michele Rhem
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For the first weekend in a while, I am at the rabbitpatch. We have big plans for Sunday -Daddys' -eighty fifth birthday party.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 6:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Or is it "The Life of Riley?"
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 2:45 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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There is snow on the daffodils at the rabbitpatch
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 8:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I used to have a lot of animals, here at the rabbitpatch. I had a miniature horse, miniature goats, chickens, doves, that came and went as they pleased and a lot of rabbits.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2020 @ 10:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Saturday was the day of Mamas' birthday gathering. Her birthday is on Tuesday, but it is much easier to gather on a weekend.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 @ 9:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After a lovely weekend in Elizabeth City, some sort of plague has set in, disturbing the peace of the rabbitpatch.
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 @ 8:21 am
By: Michele Rhem
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I am at the rabbitpatch this weekend. It has been a long time since I have said that.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Seriously? Yes, seriously. Imagine my surprise when I read that the hand gesture for okay is NOT okay.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 @ 4:40 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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It is January, but the windows are up at the rabbitpatch.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 @ 11:10 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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Proving the obvious is a waste of time but it is still required in our court rooms every day.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2020 @ 3:42 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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It does not take that long to do what they have to do. They must be doing something else.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2020 @ 7:30 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The new year is almost "old news" now. Parties have ceased and supper has resumed in routine to ordinary food in ordinary dishes.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2020 @ 9:10 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Landing on the moon was complicated and extremely dangerous and the complicated and extremely dangerous mission was performed by very brave men using woefully weak computers when compared to today's computers.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2020 @ 1:56 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Nell is about to die but at the last minute she is rescued...Or is she?
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2020 @ 9:10 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The days after the gathering on Monday, have been very quiet. I woke early on Christmas morning and sat while light came to the rabbitpatch.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2020 @ 5:46 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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I'm not one for making New Year's resolutions. Sure, there were all those years when I resolved not to gain the usual five pounds I put on every winter.
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2020 @ 1:44 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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