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Go 4th

• Laughing all the way by Pat Detmer
• July 2, 2009 · 1 Comment

Be safe. Be sane. And BYOB.
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Remembering Michael...

• Rock 'n' Roll Grandma by Penny Valladares
• June 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

In July of 1984, when the 'Jacksons Victory Tour' started in Kansas City, a few of my employees and myself were hired by the Jacksons touring caterers to assist them in feeding a large entourage and working crew of 200-400 people.
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Clapton/Winwood

• Rock 'n' Roll Grandma by Penny Valladares
• June 25, 2009 · Add a comment

Mark and I had been wanting to visit our friends in Omaha who had moved there in March and decided June 20th was as good a time as any, since Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood would be appearing there at the big, beautiful Qwest Center. The closest they would be getting to Kansas City on their 14-city summer tour.
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Defy This!

• Showbiz Kid by Carol Starr Schneider
• June 25, 2009 · Add a comment

I thought L.A., the capital of youth and beauty, was tough on us gals. But New York kicks it up a dozen notches.
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And to Top it All Off ...

• Laughing all the way by Pat Detmer
• June 21, 2009 · Add a comment

Our twenty-year old cedar shake roof is showing signs of age: gray, brittle, leaky. Just like me.
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Hair Apparent

• Laughing all the way by Pat Detmer
• June 18, 2009 · 3 Comments

When I was a kid, I didn't own my own hair. My mother owned it. I just grew it. I was a hair sharecropper.
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Art Appreciation

• Showbiz Kid by Carol Starr Schneider
• June 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

The phone rings early in the A.M. My caller i.d. tells me it’s the college boy. I assume something is wrong. This is how my sick mind works.
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