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1. 4 minutes ago on Grand Avenue

   I could never sleep during the day until I grew up and started going to meetings.

2. 11 minutes ago on Pooch Cafe

   That was my thought.

3. 1 day ago on One Big Happy

   Friend who writes melodramas began one set in a hotel with Sigmund Freud as a bellhop handling everyone’s baggage.

4. 1 day ago on On A Claire Day

   Sparking memories of our first Thanksgiving together, at my folks’. Mom was calculating how many potatoes to mash in order to leave some to make pancakes from. “Cheryl [my sister] won’t eat many.” First thing out of Cheryl’s mouth at the table was “Oh, boy! Homemade mashed potatoes!” I blame my nephew. He was about 2 months in utero at the time.

5. 1 day ago on On A Claire Day

   My raised Presbyterian, functioning as Lutheran via Congregationalist wife loves latkes.

6. 1 day ago on JumpStart

   We received a Christmas card that must have been meant for another Carlson family, but when I addressed an envelope to send it back (with compliments to their daughters for being involved in theater) I accidentally wrote our address at first.

7. 1 day ago on Grand Avenue

   Oberndorf in 1818 likely only had a few shops selling basic needs.

8. 1 day ago on Grand Avenue

   Might be thinking of “Away in a Manger.”

9. 1 day ago on Fred Basset

   “Seems she forgot all about the library like she told her old man now …” – Beach Boys, “Fun, Fun, Fun” (have performed in a music video of that, along with “I Get Around,” “In My Room,” and “California Girls”)

10. 1 day ago on Family Tree

    My understanding has always been that they were licking whatever content was left.