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Several years ago, an old friend of mine was married for the second time. He had been single for many years during which times he was not in the habit of sending cards out at Xmas. Come their first Xmas, his new wife (using their wedding guest list I assume) sent out Xmas cards. Ingrid and I gave up on sending Xmas cards some twenty odd years prior to this but we always receive a few. It struck me as noteworthy that the cards we received this time included one from my old friend and his new bride.  Since it was a 180 from his normal practice I could not let this pass without some sort of response. Look up the 8th grade vocabulary word - incongruous. I grabed a card we had received from someone else, lined out the names on the inside and added "from Ingrid and Phil". I re-addressed the envelope it came in and with some scotch tape and a new stamp, mailed it off to my friend.  The mail arrived and his wife opened and read the card. A lot to take in for someone very C

My family moved to Eagle Rock in 1949. It struck me last night for the first time that the name of one of the neighborhood streets (Townsend Avenue) is actually 2 words cobbled together - town's end. I often discover things for the first time that almost everyone else was already aware of and took for granted. As an example, for many years I thought it was “for granite” not "for granted". I still prefer "granite". Growing up with my parents included watching lots of old movies on black and white television. In so doing, I somehow morphed two actors (Van Johnson and Van Heflin) into a single person. We would watch a movie together and I would say, “there’s the guy that played the doctor in that other movie we saw last week”. My parents would argue, “He wasn’t even in that movie, boarhead!” This produced heated debates and went on for several years until the night we watched Until The Clouds Roll By . This was the only film ever made in which both of these