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- Sep 25, 2026
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EMPTY NEST (opens the original)
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My Empty Nest column is in 50 some newspapers, give or take, in three states. The reason I say "give or take" is because I’m not sure what all newspapers carry my column. I’m often surprised when someone calls and says they read my column in Yayhoo, Iowa. I had no idea I was in Yayhoo, Iowa. The way publishers spread my column around is sort of a mystery. Maybe because it’s free. Ya think? The reason "Syndicated" is in quotation marks, is because, since I write for free, is it technically syndic
Empty Nest (opens the original)
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Jim Atwater, of Ft. Madison, attended my creative writing class. This is one of the stories he wrote. He also good with Sci Fi. As you may, or may not know, I am a frustrated writer. Earlier this year I took a writing class, from a local legend (character). This is an excerpt from said writing: Life with Grandpa was not always a bed of roses. He was strict and could be harsh. I generally did okay with him because I was used to my father, who was likewise. Then there was, The Walk In the Woods. A
EMPTY NEST (opens the original)
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Coming home from the emergency room, with my knee swelled up like a basketball, felt like aging 10 years overnight. I could hardly walk, and the steps I managed to make with the injured stiff leg, like Chester on Gunsmoke, made me feel like an old man. I’m 78 going on 90. Fortunately I had my deceased brother’s cane to use, but it is hardly adequate. I should be using his walker, the green tennis ball covers on the feet reminding me of slippers and the slippery fall I took. I noticed a huge old-
From Handle to Scramble (opens the original)
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Ginnie was on me to fix the handle on her toilet. (We each have our own bathrooms.) I picked up a new handle at the hardware store, and installed it on Ginnie’s toilet. It took me awhile to figure out that the handle has left hand threads. Well, duh! Her toilet seemed to be flushing fine with the new handle. We were reading on a Friday night when Ginnie heard my toilet gurgling. She went in, jiggled the handle and sat back down. Then she heard something in her bathroom, and went to investigate.
Bed Pan Comes Out, Book Opens (opens the original)
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I’ll take and tell you, if there’s something beneficial about being incapacitated, in addition to the handicap sticker, it’s that it’s given me more time to read. The bedpan comes out, book opens. I couldn’t help but notice the Barbara Kingsolver book Ginnie was reading, "Demon Copperhead." I had never read any Kingsolver books. Dunno why. She has all the credentials: Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, New York Times Best Seller List, etc. Ginnie is a paper-book reader, leaving her books scatt
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