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14 • June 2014 • UPBEAT TIMES Petaluma Senior Center Presents:


Learn to Play


Pickleball! Pickleball is similar to Tennis but uses an


Tues & Thurs 9am to 11am. Wed 4pm & Sat 11am.


oversized Ping-Pong style paddle and Whiffl e Ball. Held at Luchessi Park Tennis Courts, Petaluma. It’s Free & easy to learn! 18yrs and older welcome!


CAVANAGH POOL


Positive Parenting Cross-country Travel by Gabriel A. Fraire • gafraire@comcast.net A


ny cross-country travel with kids


is an experi-


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8th & G Streets in Petaluma SCHEDULE FOR ADULT PROGRAMS


June 9 thru Nov 2, 2014 The pool will be closed Friday, July 4th and Labor Day,


Monday September 1st) SELF-GUIDED EXERCISE


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• Evenings: Mon, Tues & Thurs. 6:45 to 7:45 p.m.* Changing September 2nd


• Saturdays 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.


* NOTE: If no Evening Exercise Patrons have arrived by 15 minutes after the start time, the pool will close.


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ence. And we do it a lot. By plane it takes all day no mat- ter what time you leave or what plans you make. We here in So- noma County know that to get to the air- port is an hour and a half minimum if you drive yourself and often we take the Airport Bus. So why is it as soon as we settle down on that bus a child’s voice will say, “That’s enough.” Ten minutes down and ten hours to go and the child is ready to quit. Not a good sign. The highlight of any plane trip for me is changing the baby’s di- aper. The changing isn’t too bad but it’s walking that exception- ally aromatic diaper to the bath- room that is the embarrassing part. It seems like you’re walk- ing down an endless corridor.


And as I approach, people duck their heads. At least, when I get in line for the bathroom people willingly let me cut ahead. Of course, airport shops and tourist stops aren’t child proof.


So I


often feel like that girl in the horror movie


the Exor-


cist. You know, the scene where her head spins around in a complete cir- cle.


When we tried driving across country


I learned


a very interesting thing. In the West we count distance by time. Back East they mark distance in miles.


Miscommunication about time and travel can create a real pa- rental meltdown, especially when traveling with little kids, like the time the man said it was only a twenty-mile drive when he should have said, “It’ll take two hours.”


JOKES & Humor # 6


whatever you’ve mentioned. Watch. “My apple!” The lady watches in astonishment as the dog zooms over to the shop attendant and furiously devours an apple he has produced from his pocket. “He’s cute, and so unusual. I’ll take him,” she says, and a few minutes later she is on her way back home with dog to show her husband. “Darling, look what a clever pet I bought today!” she exclaims when she gets back home. “He can fly!”


The husband peers at the dog, and then remarks, “Fly eh? Ha! My foot!”


Imagination was given to man to compensate him


for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Francis Bacon


Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one’s bottom. ~Taki


A woman is out looking for a pet, and so she’s trying the local pet shops. She walks into a small pet shop and explains her need to the attendant. He thinks for a moment and then says, “I’ve got just the thing for you madam. I’ll just get him.” With that, he disappears into the back of the shop, and returns a few seconds later with a cute little puppy. “This dog is a special dog,” he tells her. “It is able to fly,” he explains, and with that throws the dog into the air. It immediately begins to float gracefully around the shop. “There is one problem with him, however. Whenever you say ‘my’, he’ll eat


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