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Purple Hearts, please, for those of us saddened by the closing of the Purple Place

August 21, 2022 Ted Witt 5d Comments

Fate took me to Boston this morning for business. I’m precisely 2,998 drive-miles away from the pinnacle of emotions rising…

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Posted in: Life in Folsom, Memoir

The Oaks

August 20, 2022 Ted Witt 1 Comment

Fresh into the infant autumn, the oaks, early in their preparation for winter, have begun to drop their leaves. They…

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Posted in: Life in Folsom, Memoir

Forget everything you have tasted about ice cream

July 26, 2018 Ted Witt

If you were to peek through our kitchen window while I was working at my new hobby ― making ice…

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Posted in: Life in Folsom, Memoir

The Owl and Man Chorus, with its one-hit wonder

November 4, 2017 Ted Witt 1 Comment

Here where the suburbs meet a lake and where the foothills of the Sierra position themselves just a glance to…

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The connection between a train ride and patriarchal skinny dippers

November 1, 2017 Ted Witt

An eerie gray envelope covers San Francisco. What a stark contrast to the earlier afternoon sun! Now the wind blows.…

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Posted in: Life in Folsom, Memoir

Why I love sitting in my backyard

January 30, 2016 Ted Witt

Why do I like sitting in my backyard? Because if I look up and away from my chickens ― my…

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World’s most famous chicken: the five-step program to fame

July 12, 2013 Ted Witt

No amount of planning and no amount of forethought prepares you for life’s turns. Just around the corner a peculiar…

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Posted in: Life in Folsom

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