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Free Chat Friday, Week 15

I THINK it’s Friday, right? 🤔🤔 It could be Tuesday for all I know; the days begin to look alike—- Wake up; follow the cats’ orders, (usually involving food); complete daily power-walk up and down MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 13

My favorite cartoon this week: Hey Donald, “Maybe stop talking,” 🙂 And meanwhile, during lockdown, I’m talking to my 93 year old Dad — he’s on lockdown himself in Colorado and having been alive nearly MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 12

Yes, Coronavirus has been news, but the real news this week hasn’t been the Coronavirus, it’s been the “press briefings” given daily by the “Coronavirus Task Force.” To truly understand the level of incompetence, condescension, MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 11

This week, we have talked about every aspect of a new strain of the Corona Virus, COVID-19. In typical NV fashion, as we’ve approached, researched, discussed, disagreed, processed, defined every aspect of the Virus, we’ve MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 10

Good morning and Happy Friday, News Viewers! You’re stuck with me today because our lovely Rachel is a bit under the weather. Get well soon, Rachel! No, I’m not ‘rigging’ an election by the cartoon MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 9

My favorite cartoon this week is Morona-Virus. .. .why? Great wordsmithing, for one, but also a reminder of the dumbest of dumb press conferences–the press briefing delivered by the Donald this week that managed once MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 8

Happy Friday News Viewers; another vitally important news week raising the questions, ” which of these is the best TV series of all time? The Wire, The Sopranos or Breaking Bad?” Oh right. News. Where MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 7

Happy Friday News Viewers– YES, I overslept and YES I had good reason–who can sleep with the kind of news we’re swimming in daily? So now that apparently Morning has Broken, let’s chat– it’s Free MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 6

Happy Friday, viewers of news, and against ALL odds, the stars may be aligning in our favor. This was seen this week–pictured is time lapse photography and the Aurora have never looked quite like this: MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 5

“In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.” ― Czesław Miłosz “That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 3

Word of the Day: Wollemi—an Australian aboriginal word meaning “watch out, look around you”. Why Wollemi, you may ask? Because by some miracle, the Wollemi Pines, the oldest tree species (it’s been around 65 million years) was MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 1

It’s an old tradition for bringing in the New Year, you’ve heard of it — “Make Noise.” It’s international and it’s supposed to bring luck — in the case of 2020, yesterday Trump made noise MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 52

Good morning and Happy Friday, News Viewers. Ms. Rachel is ‘on assignment;’ so, you’re stuck with me.  Aren’t you lucky?! Personally, I love the time I’ve had off.  So, let’s get a few things out MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 51

Happy Friday, News Viewers, this is the Friday after the Wednesday that Impeachment was the Headline; we’ll call it an early Christmas present from the House of Representatives. . . . Let’s freely chat, anything MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 48

Happy Black Friday, News Viewers, although Thursday is now Black Thursday according to Wal-Mart. Not sure what to call Wednesday though–how about “another day Trump moved unimpeded throughout the world”? SO of course, he made MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 45

Happy Friday News Viewers; but not so “Happy” after all, right? Today we are faced with a glaring juxtaposition: an impeachment hearing and a school shooting. Side by side, children dead and wounded because they MORE

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Free Chat Friday, Week 45

Happy Friday News Viewers, what a roller coaster of a week! We saw slight indications that MAYBE the Trump machine is winding down its attempts at world domination; 2019 elections saw Democratic wins; the House MORE