I often write about hope and faith. This is a very inspirational blog but I like to be subtle. My upbeat messages are embedded in the posts and it may take special glasses to read it. Some examples of my … Continue reading
Done, done, done!
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The detour is gone! My morning trip is easy and quick again. After I did the snoopy dance to celebrate I thought about the past few months of using the detour. I did not get to be a more considerate … Continue reading
You’re driving me crazy!
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I am not responsible for anything that stands between me and my first morning coffee! Remember that post I wrote about the detour I have to take for my Starbucks each morning? (What! You didn’t read it! That’s downright sacrilegious! … Continue reading
Contrasts and comparisons
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There is nothing more dramatic than opposites — young and old, weak and strong, daring and uncaring. The list goes on and on. Lately this has all been hitting home. With the visit of the 7-year-old granddaughters last week I … Continue reading
They came, they saw, they conquered
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On my kitchen island sits two sad smurfs. That’s all that’s left of the granddaughters. They left this morning to go to the shore. That’s the beach to you out-of-towners. It was a great visit but very perplexing for me. I’m … Continue reading
Remembering my Dad on his birthday
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Here is a story about my Dad that I wrote last year. Today my Dad would be 110 if he were alive. He died when he was 55 years old. He was a healthy, vibrant man who didn’t wake up … Continue reading
Fighting off the grim reaper yet again
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So…how do you act when you get bad news? Ride with your emotions? Blubber all over the place? Try to keep a stiff upper lip? Not sure what to do? Yeah, me too. We got bad news last week. Someone … Continue reading
A little summer dreaming
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Here it is August again. That’s my favorite time of the year. The cicadas have been singing their little hearts out. The frogs have been croaking. The weather has been perfect. The humidity and excessive heat wave broke. Everything is so … Continue reading
Early consciousness | For Animal Lovers
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What is the earliest memory you have? Were you five or six? Or much younger? Were they good memories or bad ones? Or a mix of different experiences? I don’t have a lot of memories prior to starting school. I … Continue reading
Food Choices
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Yesterday was food day. I read two posts – one by Fransi Weinstein on how to make a grilled cheese sandwich in a foreign hotel and another by Nancy from Spirit Lights the Way on disaster meals. That took me … Continue reading
