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239 Lose-Lose - Thursday, August 27, 2009

Schedules are hectic and days are fleeting – time, although I thought so as a lad, does not stand still. My commitment to pen a new blog each and every day of this year constantly challenges me to keep pace – I often find I have lagged behind and am in a ‘catch-up’ mode. After I had completed a couple of writings, I hurriedly posted them to my blog websites and emailed them to the family so those nearby could start reading them. I broke my normal protocol of first sending blogs to Cynthia so she can check for typo’s, grammatical usage, and general information and layout in my press to get them to avid and voracious readers. Now my clan was engrossed in perusing Blog 237 Reminisce. Cynthia raised her deep brown twinkling eyes above her ‘readers’ and said, “you have an extra ‘i’ in it” – where? – “in maize” – how ‘corny’ can you be? You know I meant maze as in labyrinth – “yes, but what you wrote was maize as in Early American Indian planting! That was mortifying enough but at that very instant my mother’s voice pierced the entire living room in an elevated pitch announced, “I will have you know my roast was NOT dry!” The life lessons to be learned here are: 1) when you have a system that works, stick with it, even when pressured to do differently, and 2) forget about semantics even in the context of literary license if your mother’s roast is involved – I learned my lesson, even though this time it was a lose-lose proposition!

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