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February 29, 2008

SOCKATORY

“Wh…where am I?”

Water dripped off Jym Anklet as he rubbed his heel with his toes, while noticing the sterile white room and feeling the cold surface of the emergency-room drawer.

“Whoa, that’s quite a bruise. Looks like a belt buckle hit you pretty hard,” said Holey Wellworn.

“Belt buckle?”

“Yes, it left quite an impression on your heel.”

As Holey’s comforting touch eased Jym’s pain he realized he lay crumpled in a chilly, scummy water puddle. His last recollection was swishing luxuriously in a warm, soapy clothes washer.

Now he was…where?…was this the post-life secret?

(to continue this story click on SOCKATORY )  To read a related story click on Darning Socks

February 28, 2008

OBITUARY FOR BLUE BUOY (A Blue Lobster)

OBITUARY NOTICE
(See Blue Buoy’s picture—click on:

We regretfully report the demise of Blue Buoy, age unknown, sometime last spring or early summer. Following Blue Buoy’s capture near the Isles of Shoals in September, 2003, he spent a short time at a lobster shack in New Castle, NH. From there he took up residence at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH, where visitors, including many school children on field trips, admired his robin’s egg blue color.Blue Buoy leaves behind cousins Whitey, Baloo Bell and his aged uncle, Toughage.
His legacy is not only in the hearts (more…)

February 27, 2008

KILLED STRANGELY: A NEW ENGLAND MURDER STORY

Photo illustrations for this post are located at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/beaneryonlineliterarymagazine/2294677309/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/beaneryonlineliterarymagazine/2295470648/in/photostream/

On Feb. 8, 1673, a 73-year old widow, Rebecca Cornell, was found deceased, burned to death, in front of her bedroom fireplace. Her son, Thomas Cornell, 46, was hung for her “murder” on May 23, 1673. (more…)

February 26, 2008

HI! I’M COCHRAN! NICE TO MEET Y’ALL!

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After many years I’m finally coming out of the imagination into reality!

Let me introduce myself. My name is Cochran Cornell. People refer to me as cantankerous, but I cannot understand why. I’m not difficult or irritating! How can I be considered mean-spirited? Why, I’m most often like Grover (more…)

February 25, 2008

WISDOM FROM A CHILD TO A GRANDPARENT

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This piece was written about my granddaughter when she was three years old. She’s now ten. It’s amazing how much less I know as we both get older. Will I ever reach the age of wisdom?

My mother once told me that as a person gets older they realize their knowledge is minimal. It’s funny, but my granddaughter, Jordan, taught me the same thing.

After her birth I learned the position of grandparent has automatic privileges. One such privilege (more…)

February 24, 2008

LEE HORSELOGGER’S SOJOURN IN LAUGHLINTOWN, PA.

To read the latest posts in the Beanery Online Literary Magazine, click on

DOES EXAGGERATING THE TRUTH CREATE GOOD STORIES? & TWO ST. DAVIDS CHRISTIAN WRITERS’ CONFERENCES & POETRY AND SHORT STORY CONTESTS

Click on http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmborolmpark/ to view photo illustrations of this article.

I don’t organize the trip, I’m just pony driving. You get where you’re supposed to get when you are supposed to and not a minute sooner. (Lee Horselogger)

Just after 2:30 p.m., this afternoon (Saturday, Feb. 23) my neighbor Amy and her preteen daughter Emma passed a horse-drawn wagon traveling the Lincoln Highway—Route 30—the road that connects New York City with San Francisco.

The troupe was half way between Latrobe and Greensburg, PA.

Lee Horselogger’s presence in Laughlintown, PA, (more…)

February 23, 2008

ARE YOU LIVING IMPAIRED?

During Lent in 2007 the Beanery Online Literary Magazine, in conjunction with the Open Hands Ministries (a web site for the Open Hands and the United Methodist Churches in the Ligonier Valley, PA) posted forty days of Lent devotions. This year, I will repost one every five days, with links to additional devotions at the end of each reading.

SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 46:4 Even in your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. (NIV)

DEVOTION: I look in the mirror and see yet another gray hair, and I quickly grab an old towel and my bottle of age-fixator. Then I apply (more…)

February 22, 2008

THE OVENS on Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Click on the following to read posts in the Beanery Online Literary Magazine, Vol. 2: I BELONG TO MY FAMILY & PROTECTING PRIVACY OF PERSONAL DATA ON YOUR COMPUTER & DOES EXAGGERATING THE TRUTH CREATE GOOD STORIES?

Oct. 8, 2006. Like Hansel and Gretel, Monte and I headed towards THE OVENS on our trip to New England. Only we weren’t being chased there by the wicked witch—we were visiting a place where my ancestors—and very likely, the main character in the first part of my historic romance novel—picnicked and frolicked during low tide on Frenchman’s Bay (more…)

February 21, 2008

IN SEARCH OF THE ARABELLA: A STORY OF TWO BOATS

Between April 8 and June 12, 1630, a fleet of 17 ships carrying over 1000 passengers set sail from Yarmouth, England to Salem, Massachusetts. It was under the command of Mass. Gov. John Winthrop, who sailed with 400 emigrants aboard the flagship “Arabella.” This 28-gun ship also transported the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company to Salem, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

(to read the rest of this story click on  IN SEARCH OF THE ARABELLA: A STORY OF TWO BOATS )

February 20, 2008

A REVIEW OF RESPONSES TO CAMPBELL’S BEST BUY LAWSUIT: Part 2

This is part two of a review of responses to an article concerning a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy. Click here to read A REVIEW OF RESPONSES TO CAMPBELL’S BEST BUY LAWSUIT: Part 1

Click here to read PROTECTING PRIVACY OF PERSONAL DATA ON YOUR COMPUTER

Click here to read the original article on Raelyn Campbell: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/02/a-lost-laptop-a.html#posts

During this phase of my life my title is photo/journalist, author. My laptop is a tool for writing and research. It has become a necessary tool, allowing me to work at home, in libraries, in courthouses. It provides a great freedom to write the historic journal article I am working on, as well as the historic romance novel.

And yes, I do keep a lot of personal information stored on my laptop. That is what it is for. That is why I purchased it. (more…)

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