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Fortunately, there is an improvisation exercise using fortunately/unfortunately stories. Participants take turns articulating one sentence at a time in a build-upon story chain. Each sentence ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, July 26, 2022 8:45 pm
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Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt The weather was close. That’s how my mother would have described it. Stifling humidity surrounded me and it ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 8:45 pm
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Cheap gas! I hit the brakes and swerved off the road because a gas station, long out of business, left a sign proclaiming its ancient ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, July 5, 2022 8:45 pm
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I was certain it was a trap to lure me out of hiding and bring me to justice for not turning in my slide rule.
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, June 28, 2022 8:45 pm
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A Canada goose sounded like a car horn in need of tinkering. It was an avian tickle as I knuckled the sleep from my eyes. ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, June 14, 2022 7:04 pm
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I didn’t have to herd cats.
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, May 31, 2022 8:45 pm
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Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt Angry hailstones the size of bowling balls had battered my poor car. That was not on my to-do ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, May 24, 2022 8:45 pm
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He hadn’t run amok. He’d bungeed amok.
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, May 10, 2022 8:45 pm
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My body’s check engine light came on.
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, April 19, 2022 8:45 pm
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That’s no way for the weather to make friends.
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, April 5, 2022 8:46 pm
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I gave a collection of “Gunsmoke” TV show DVDs to a friend going through a rough patch. A rough patch is how I describe things ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:45 pm
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Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt I accomplished a great deal in the last 12 months. I got a year older. Another year of ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, March 15, 2022 8:45 pm
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PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF FREEBORN Court File No. 24-PR-22-257 THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT DISTRICT COURT PROBATE DIVISION Estate of James F. Stiernagle, Decedent ...
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by Al Batt, Sunday, March 13, 2022 1:17 pm
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My Aunt Edith had been delicate, but she came out of that swamp onto higher ground. She died at the age of 105 years, 8 ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 8:45 pm
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My mother wouldn’t have approved — either of weasels ripping my flesh or me searching for a magazine article carrying that title. Years earlier, it’d ...
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by Al Batt, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 8:45 pm
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