When my son was so sick I shared how stupid I found it was to go and on about winning the lottery. Well, now the whole world is sick, and it is a BILLION times stupider. So I’m not going to talk about the lottery.I’m going to share blessings about isolation. As I acknowledge both…
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Lotteryist Week 12
My small-town, almost totally non-existent social media following must have known I was back in town, and they all psychically knew the very time I was going to be at my Personal Lottery Center. I have never met as many friends at the local stop-and-rob on a Saturday afternoon. It was fun. First thing each…
Lotteryist Week 11
My son was ill. Gravely ill. And far away. And without family. Made philosophizing on playing the lottery just plain silly. I was caring for my son, so no new Lotteryist posts for the last several weeks. He is on the road to recovery, and I am back home. Thank you for prayers, or good…
Lotteryist Week 10
I’ve been on the road much of the last few weeks and have gotten behind on this weekly lottery thing. But the trips gave me great new ideas for the big bucks I’m not going to win. The first trip was to England. A whole week touring English gardens may not be everybody’s cup of…
Lotteryist Week 9
She had huge brown eyes, Hershey Kiss soft and chocolately . The little girl, maybe eight years old, came to the counter just as the clerk took my number sheet. I felt her solemn eyes on us as he took my $3.00 and entered my special numbers into the magic lottery machine. I smiled at…
Lotteryist Week 8
Learned something interesting this week – lotterying has become a habit, a something I must do, a thing that must be accomplished. This week I didn’t think about what I would do with the money, the moral value of the lottery, even the composing of this blog post. The buying of the ticket was the…
Lotteryist Week 7
There was a line of people at my Personal Lottery Central. The people stood very quiet in eerie silence. In my little town, people talk to each other. It’s hard to meet a stranger. But today was different. No one made eye contact. No one nodded in greeting. Was the place being robbed? As casually…
Lotteryist Week 6
The new clerk was working again this week. And again, it took three tries to get my numbers put in correctly. It makes me feel good about my town that in a week she had such little practice that the lottery machine is still a challenge. Maybe we aren’t such get-rich-with-no-effort people after all. I…
Lotteryist Week 5
Sooo, a new clerk is working at Lottery Central. She didn’t have a clue how to punch in my numbers. I cannot tell you how relieved I am that there is someone else as ignorant as I am about lotterying. It took several tries and several instructions from a very patient manager to get the…
Lotteryist Week 4
Soooo, this post is two weeks late because I was in Washington DC at the American Library Association conference. The trip was awesome and I learned a lot. And I had a fantastic thought. One of the good things I have mentioned I would do if I won big was endow our county library. I…