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My good customer-service experience with CafePress.com

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on December 30, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Here’s the glowing e-mail I sent regarding my fresh-air experience with CafePress.com: Hello to almost all the contacts in my address book, Most of you know that I don’t usually forward e-mails, and rarely open forwarded e-mails, but this one …

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Cleveland Clinic face transplant: A no-brainer

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on December 18, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

In Cleveland this week, doctors performed the first US face transplant on a woman “with facial damage so severe that she could not eat on her own or breathe without a hole in her windpipe,” according to The New York …

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Tires to Energy Plant

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on December 17, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

In my town, a tires-to-energy plant has been proposed, and it’s having trouble with the zoning laws. Apparently, the plant’s smoke stacks would be too high for the zoning regulations. If I lived downwind from the plant, I’d rather see …

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A vs. An with words that start with H.

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on December 16, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

In the past decade or so, I’ve been peeved by the way people think they should treat “an” preceding words that start with H. I’ve heard news anchors referring to “an hospital, etc.,” and it makes me cringe. Here’s the …

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Crazy Winter Driving

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on December 12, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Today, I did some holiday shopping at Target on Peach Street, which during the holidays, is referred to as “Peach Jam.” It had just started snowing when I got to the store and only got worse while I shopped. After …

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Santa Monica Homeless

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on November 20, 2008 Posted in Culture, Health, Route 66, Travel, Uncategorized No Comments

Update –  June 11, 2019. I wrote this post in 2008 and last summer, when I was in California, I asked some Santa Monica residents about the homeless situation. Apparently, it is no better today than it was 10 years …

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My Reboot: Solo Route 66 Trip Introduction

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on October 15, 2008 Posted in Route 66 No Comments

Why did I take a solo trip along Route 66? Well, in 2008, I was a new empty nester, and a series of life events, including illness, death, and loss of various kinds, had left me depleted and disgusted. During …

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Route 66 Twitter Updates

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on October 1, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Update (1/28/2020) In 2008, I did not have a smart phone. I had to text a phone number with my updates! My, how times have changed. Presque Isle to the Pacific Route 66 cross-country 6,000-mile journey~~~ September 10 through September …

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Route 66: Terre Haute, IN, to HOME! (20-of-20)

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on September 30, 2008 Posted in Route 66, Travel No Comments

I arrived home at around 8:30 p.m. last night after having stopped in Cleveland, OH, to have dinner with Daughter Krista. We met a friend of hers at the House of Blues before the two of them went to a …

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Route 66: Tulsa, OK, to Terre Haute, IN (19-of-20)

By Ann Silverthorn Posted on September 28, 2008 Posted in Route 66, Travel No Comments

I put in about eight hours of driving today. You can get a lot farther sooner when traveling on Interstates than on the back roads of Route 66. It took me ten days on Route 66 to get to California. …

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