HeyJaredThe Grandmother’s Substack by Patricia Dubrava
My personal Substack, often featuring a sometimes cranky old woman and her issues
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Moments from Travel in the West (opens the original)
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Moments from Travel in the WestWe’re not slowOn the highway, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana set the speed limit at 80. Understandable. These are big territories with little traffic and it takes all day to get from one town to another with a lot of Black Angus grazing in between. We drove up one long rolling hill and down the other side with blue sky and white scudding clouds all around without seeing another car. Since the steep climb slowed it down, that semi that was gaining on us fell further beh
On traveling in America (opens the original)
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We are serious readers. Our bedtime ritual is to read for 30 - 60 minutes before shutting out the lights. In this way, with little regular reading time elsewhere in the day, I manage to read 40 – 50 books a year. But Americans are not readers. Many hotels fail to provide lamps beside the bed or any other conveniently lighted place to read. And even our intelligent, artistic and well-read friends we stay with in Spokane, have only overhead lighting in the guest bedroom. We improvise temporary lig
My Sucky Summer and Why I May Not Post for a While (opens the original)
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I may have mentioned this before, but it’s been a hard summer. Bad hailstorm in June just when the yard was starting to bloom. Destroyed yard, roof, gutters. Dealing with insurance and roofers sometimes feels like a fulltime job. Just as the yard was starting to recover, roofers flattened some of it again. We’d never get any roofs done around here without Mexicans and Venezuelans and whoever else those Spanish speakers are. They are hard workers, cheerful, complete the roof in one day, as promis
For Robert Evan Keuning (opens the original)
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They say you are never really dead until no one remembers you. My brother won’t be gone until these people, his wife, his two children, his six grandchildren who know him as GranGran, and I are all gone. And then, who knows, he may linger yet. It appears board games are still in vogue, Robert’s daughter and son select photos for his service, Diane, his wife and if there are no seats left, apparently you sit on your father.
Mail-In Voting (opens the original)
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They are trying to steal our vote by mail, trumpy and his criminal gang. Despite the fact that there’s never been any fraud connected to mail-in voting and voters love voting by mail. Almost 50 million of us did so last year.“Trump — who himself voted by mail as recently as this year in Florida — has said he issued this order to stop illegal voting by non-U.S. citizens in federal elections, which research has found</sp
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