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Jun.19.2013
It was an October night when I got the phone call. I was up reading and picked up the phone. It was Meranda.
“I have some news,” she said.
“Good or bad?”
“Really really good.” I had a feeling it was coming but it was still a delight: “I’m pregnant.”
Oh.My.God. Oh wow oh wow oh...
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Jun.06.2013
From Starring Sally J. Freeman as Herself:
Esther Williams was her favorite movie actress. Some day she was going to swim just like her, with her hair in a coronet and a flower behind her ear. Swimming along underwater, always smiling, with beautiful straight white teeth and shiny red...
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Jun.05.2013
If you had to ask my parents about the night I was born, they would tell you different stories. For instance, my mother would tell you they were having friends over when someone dared her to touch her toes. She said "I can too touch my toes!" As she did, suddenly she felt this awful pain. During...
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Jun.01.2013
She was a hard character to miss. Most definitely the voice; high pitched and could be heard a mile away. She wore practical housedresses, sensible shoes. If Archie wanted a beer, she got him a beer. She never would sit in his chair. Never! She was Edith Baines Bunker. The woman who brought her to...
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May.30.2013
They were never friends with benefits. They wouldn't know what that meant. And if you told them, they'd be grossed out. Besides, why can't boys and girls be friends and just that? Why do you have to make it more than it is? Such is the case of Henry Huggins and Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby. They were...
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May.26.2013
In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae, May 1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved...
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May.12.2013
My niece has to do a report on a famous Californian. She chose Lucille Ball. That's my girl! Cue I Love Lucy theme!
I emailed Meranda and told her I had a season of I Love Lucy on DVD, plus the movie Yours Mine and Ours. Not only does Ball do a great job as Helen North Beardsley...
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May.08.2013
Last night I wrote an essay about the city council and its decision to deny the appeal on tearing down the Dome. I wanted to polish it then post it today. But I needed to run errands in Martinez so I left around nine.
To get to Martinez you have to go through Pleasant Hill.Out of...
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May.06.2013
Late Friday I found out there was going to be not one but two hearings concerning the Dome. One I wasn't sure I could make at 7:30, one added at the last minute at 4:15. I knew fore sure I could make the 4:15 hearing.
I dressed in my spiffy Dome T-shirt I bought the last day the theater was...
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May.03.2013
Summer has hit early, so I was cleaning my kitchen before the heat hit with Young and Restless on in the background. Katherine (Jeanne Cooper) just came home from the hospital. I glanced at the computer screen and there was a headline on Facebook: Jeanne Cooper gravely ill. At first I wasn't...
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May.01.2013
Drum Rolling...
Live! From Lafayette California! It's the Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons book awards ceremony!!
Starring...
Madame!
Elvis Costello!
Mitzi Gaynor!
The Archies!
Zsa Zsa Gabor!
Honey West!
Liza Minnelli!
Jaye P. Morgan!
David Gates!
Rip...
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Apr.29.2013
Last night I was restless. I finished the essay about Sunvalley, then felt absolutely restless. It was a gorgeous night; I had rice for dinner then went back on the computer to read comments about the Dome. Why do I do this to myself, I have no idea. Because trolls are out and they're...
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Apr.28.2013
I passed the Dome today. I didn't have a chance to stop; Dad was visiting and wanted to check on his storage unit. "It's really closed, isn't it?" he asked me.
"It's such a damned waste."
"What are they going to do with the seats?" he asked as he rolled down the window. It was already warm; he...
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Apr.27.2013
It was warm today-perfect Saturday weather. It was the last day the Loaded Hog would be open. I kind of feel bad for the Hog; the Dome has gotten all the attention while the Hog has been neglected. But the leather was shining as I stopped by at eleven. I didn't stay long; felt too sad. I managed...
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Apr.22.2013
Sunday I felt tired and crabby all day. Unless a rabbit is pulled out of the hat on May 6th when the Pleasant Hill council hears an appeal to save the Dome, this was the last day it would be open. I made myself get dressed, grabbed my tickets, then headed over there.
The parking lot was...
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About Jennifer
Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California. She is the grand prize winner of the Red Room Housewarming contest and one of the winners of the Summer Reading Experience Contest. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.
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Causes Jennifer Gibbons Supports
Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency, Amber Brown Fund, Linda Duncan Fund for Contra Costa Libraries
Jennifer’s Favorite Books
p>To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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