Anita Garner

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  1. Unintentional collector

    5/1/12 8:05am by Anita Garner
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    We all have something we appreciate so much that we keep way too many of them. Maybe we aren’t collectors-by-intention, but we look around and it’s turned out that way. For my friend, Pam, it was sofas.  She once owned a whole bunch of sofas. She had plenty of room for them, since she lived in a big old flat in Boston’s Back Bay.  From there she moved to an even bigger Maine farmhouse, where sofas kept following her home.  Read more >

  2. New year, new growth

    1/16/12 12:57pm by Anita Garner
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    Here’s a beautiful Christmas gift which I didn’t plant until a few days ago.  After the holiday decorations were put away, this Amaryllis took up a spot on my harvest table over by the kitchen window, where it appears to be content. This seems significant somehow.  Read more >

  3. My pants are profound.

    9/4/11 4:05pm by Anita Garner
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    I just bought new pants.  There’s a pretty blue tag on them that says: Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. I’m afraid I can’t live up to the expectations of my pants.  Read more >

  4. Movies without popcorn?

    7/17/11 4:27pm by Anita Garner
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    Every time I think about the recently released actual calorie/fat content of movie popcorn, it ruins the prospect of seeing a new movie. I’m incapable of sitting in a movie theatre without the popcorn. In fact, theatre popcorn is one of the main reasons for going out to see a movie. I understand this is illogical, and that if too many other people felt this way, it would be bad for the movie industry.  Read more >

  5. Quit picking on Starbucks.

    3/21/11 7:51am by Anita Garner
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    Coffee

    I like the concept of a coffee culture. Caffeine is my vice of choice and Starbucks enhances the experience. Starbucks didn’t take away any independent coffee shops around here. They were already mostly gone. We have a couple of small, family-run restaurants left, but we didn’t really have a meet-me-for-coffee place until Starbucks built several.  Read more >

  6. Silly side of aging

    3/7/11 9:29am by Anita Garner
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    Jokes about getting old begin in childhood and continue for decades until - gasp - one actually shows signs of age.  It’s another case of it’s funny ‘til it’s not.  Even when the joke’s on me, I get it, I really do.  We joke because  what else are we gonna do? Hooray for Baby Boomers, whose aging numbers are now so great that their wants and needs can’t be ignored.  ’Bout damn time.  Read more >

  7. Wondering about a world with fewer cars

    2/24/11 8:24am by Anita Garner
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    woman driving a car

    I’m thinking about cars a lot lately because I’m in them a lot lately. When I’m not in one, I’m dreading the next time I’ll have to be in one. I’m tired of automobiles. I’m worried about gas prices (again.) The love affair is fading, but breaking up is hard to do.  Read more >

  8. What's so great about girlfriends? Hormones!

    1/25/11 5:12pm by Anita Garner
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    In a crisis, nothing's better than a girlfriend.  I'm lifting this quote from Marin Magazine, because it makes the point perfectly..  Read more >

  9. Eye exams make me insecure.

    1/6/11 6:43am by Anita Garner
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    With multiple choice tests you stand a chance of getting at least some of the answers right.  For me, multiple choices bring on second-guessing.  This situation is not a confidence-booster at the eye doctor's office while being examined before purchasing hundreds of dollars worth of glasses and contacts. The doctor clicks that giant face-mask-like black contraption with the eye-holes into place and asks, this one or this one? Me:  Uh... Doc: A or B?  Me: A.  No, B.  I'm not sure.  Read more >

  10. Facebook and me - working on our relationship

    12/2/10 9:02am by Anita Garner
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    When it comes to social networking, I’m late to the party (again) and wearing the wrong clothes (again). Most people I know are on Facebook. I was not, until recently. My daughter and friends urged a Facebook page. I said I don’t need to be that public with every thought and mood. They said you already are, your work is all over the internet and you’re much more open there than people on Facebook are. My daughter set up the page, a girlfriend recently chose a new profile picture and I’m off and running, sort of. More like limping.  Read more >

Anita Garner

Full Name
Anita Garner
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June 2008
About Me: 

I was raised on radio, singing on my parents radio program in the Deep South since I was three.  I'm a lifelong writer and broadcaster, working on the air for decades. Today I'm a voice for KCET television in Hollywood, though I live in northern California. (Bless technology. I record from a nearby studio.) I write often about family and food and my family's history in Southern Gospel and Rockabilly music. I'm writing a collection of short stories and working toward (fingers crossed) producing a play, The Glory Road, with the help of a talented director, Greg Zerkle. Updates at www.thegloryroad.com.

My radio buddy, Dave Williams, and I began a website a while back, thinking we might turn out a book from our unique perspective (and we still might) both of us having been disc jockeys during and after the infamous Age of Aquarius.  (www.theagingofaquarius.com)
Among other subjects, we write about what it’s like to be this age, being grandparents today, after our colorful past as part of the groundbreaking, ground-shaking, rock and roll, 60’s and 70’s youth movement.

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