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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: December 2011
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Thursday, December 22, 2011. Mid-morning at St. Arbuck’s. It had been a rough week, what with having said a final goodbye to Miss Alice, my mother-in-law. She had fought bravely against the stroke that had come without warning, stripping away everything that had made her, well.her, and in the end, as so often happens when the very elderly are so stricken, it took her life. A bored businessman patiently awaited the delivery of his beverage, his eyes betray...
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: August 2011
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Friday, August 26, 2011. A stippling of sunlight filtered down through the towering redwoods, their pungent scent saturating the intimate campus confines as a warm breeze stirred what was left of my recently shorn locks that early September morn. Seems my new college had a dress code, and long hair was forbidden.as was most everything else commonly enjoyed by those of my generation. But, that’s another story. Shoulder-length blonde hair; eyes of cerulean ...
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: Hollow Girl
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Friday, July 20, 2012. It was a rare, sun splashed morning in OB, the marine layer having retreated somewhere beyond the blue horizon. I mean coming from the desert I haven’t minded the cool, misty mornings, but when the misty mornings turn to misty, windy afternoons for days on end it eventually begins to wear on you. Except, that is, for one couple. They were an odd pair. She: Early thirties with ill-cut, shoulder length, drab, brown hair; large, blue e...
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: The Spiderman Incident
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Monday, July 23, 2012. And don't forget the flour. Last time you forgot the flour! Sometimes I think you'd forget your head if it wasn't attached.". I didn't hear you, James Edward. What did you say? She hollered from the screened-in porch. All right, mom. I won't forget.". Now you hurry back. I don't want you dawdling.". Passing the pharmacy Jimmy slowed way down and looked through the window at the magazine rack. Right away he could tell that there ...
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: May 2011
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Thursday, May 5, 2011. Preview From Snapshots At St. Arbuck's Vol 2. It's been awhile." This from Eddie as we sat on the patio of St. Arbuck's, sipping our brews and enjoying the brief period of time that exists between days when there is a thirty mph wind and one hundred-ten degree temperatures, and days where there is a thirty mph wind and fifty degree temperatures. It's normally called "October," but this year it started a week early. What did you just...
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: Interdependence Day (From Snapshots At St. Arbuck's Vol 3 ©2014 R.G. Ryan)
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Friday, July 4, 2014. Interdependence Day (From Snapshots At St. Arbuck's Vol 3 ©2014 R.G. Ryan). 86 degrees on its way to 104. There's a 13 mph breeze blowing out of the Southwest. Independence Day and St. Arbuck's is surprisingly busy yet missing the typical morning demographic of overly stressed and harried individuals on their way to someplace more important than here. I, on the other hand, am content to just sit, sip and ponder. So I read it. Is when...
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: November 2011
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Thursday, November 17, 2011. A Place In The Sun. The morning hadn’t started well. After the fact, my beloved and I blamed it on the stress that accompanied the situation we’d been dealing with for the past ten days. She’s in hospice, you know. 8220;She,” being Miss Alice, my mother-in-law. It sounds so cold and clinical; but hospice is anything but cold, and it most certainly is not. I’ve tried to change. No, really, I have! On the way, I decided to stop ...
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: June 2012
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Friday, June 29, 2012. Classic cars of all shapes, colors and vintage lined the street outside of St. Arbuck’s along with hundreds of appreciative strollers drinking in the lines and shapes of automotive history. The Beach Boys cover band across the way pounded out the hits as onions, sweet relish and chilidogs saturated the air with the scent of nostalgia. It was a very nice guitar—custom by the looks of it. Between songs he kept up an easy banter with t...
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's: Sez Me (In which I manage to tick off everyone)
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Snapshots At St. Arbuck's. Lifeone sip at a time. Sunday, December 16, 2012. Sez Me (In which I manage to tick off everyone). You have those ignorant, intolerant and unenlightened right-wingers railing, “Where is your outrage over the millions of innocent babies being slaughtered through abortion? 8221; And on the other side those equally evil, progressive liberals are screaming for gun control and the abolition of the 2. It’s called developing a worldview. The average number of accidental deaths per yea...
