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My grandma is my best friend.
My most important family member is my grandma. I live with my grandma. Me and my family call her Nana Pat. She is so important to me. She makes me...
Posted by themelaman
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 09:27:00 PST
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This summer, my son and I took a trip to Aspen. That’s where one set of grandparents live. Though the weather was comfortably warm, it was much cooler in the highlands.
On this day, we hiked at Maroon...
Posted by themelaman
- Tue Jan 30, 2007 14:14:13 PST
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The following starts out as a typical family trip to the Grand Canyon. Little Johnnie is strapped into his seat belt and finishes his Lifesaver lollipop, he looks out the window and asks,
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Posted by themelaman
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:27:31 PST
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Want to support the arts in the San Joaquin Valley? Why not scribble out a check for $10,000 dollars? Or simply sit down in your favorite rocking chair (or on a smooth rock), tune in to Valley Pubic Radio, and listen to “Valley...
Posted by themelaman
- Fri Dec 22, 2006 13:57:55 PST
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The traffic school teacher showed a video in which various drivers described how their lives had been ruined in moments of carelessness. At the end of each segment, the drivers would say, “It happened to ME. It could happen to...
Posted by themelaman
- Thu Dec 7, 2006 09:39:27 PST
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The traffic school teacher showed a video in which various drivers described how their lives had been ruined in moments of carelessness. At the end of each segment, the drivers would say, “It happened to ME. It could happen to...
Posted by themelaman
- Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:29:17 PST
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Midway thought the class, the teacher introduced an unexpected hero: the truck behind the man. In its old age and heavily-dented condition, the truck kept him relatively safe. “Well, she goes zero to sixty...
Posted by themelaman
- Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:34:40 PST
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After three hours in a DMV guided lecture, I became convinced that the enemy was not the highway patrol. Rather, it was the system that gave us traffic “school.” No orange cones; no driving course; just a lecture that no one...
Posted by themelaman
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:31:37 PDT
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I once sat in a business meeting in which the speaker tried to break the ice by telling a joke.
“What has two hundred legs and three teeth? Give up? The front row of a Willy Nelson concert. Hahaha.”
When several...
Posted by themelaman
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 13:03:32 PDT
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“And …ACTION!”
My actions on this Sunday morning –– running out of my house, jumping into my car, and racing to a nearby Holiday Inn with an anxious look...
Posted by themelaman
- Thu Sep 7, 2006 10:57:17 PDT
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This summer, Andrew and dad took a train ride up to the Colorado Rockies. We saw family in Aspen and drove back through the Grand Canyon. We also visited Morro Bay. The Beautiful Girls of Love stayed at home this time.
Posted by themelaman
- Sat Jul 29, 2006 00:33:48 PDT
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After graduating from the local university, I read “The Golden Ass” as part of a self-paced reading program in the satirical classics. The first book I read was “The Satyricon.” In a brazen fashion, it chronicles...
Posted by themelaman
- Sat Jul 15, 2006 14:20:38 PDT
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While my family and I celebrated Mother’s Day weekend at the coast, we received a phone call and learned that my wife’s grandmother was in the hospital, following a stroke. On Sunday, we gathered with immediate family...
Posted by themelaman
- Wed May 24, 2006 17:15:36 PDT
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This Sunday, I test-drove a new car.The salesman buckled up and told me to drive from White Lane to Panama Lane. On the freeway on-ramp, we passed a cop who was sitting on his parked motorcycle.“He’s gonna catch...
Posted by themelaman
- Fri Apr 7, 2006 14:19:15 PDT
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