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Thanks for being patient with me and waiting for my blog to reappear. My husband David passed away. Cancer was more powerful than we were, more powerful than the medical […]

We complain at a high level. The maid dropped a glass, I have a broken nail but my nail lady has the flu, one of our rentals has been vacant […]

The world “middle” has been buzzing around in my head lately. Not that middle is an uncommon word, just too common for me. Maybe I am more aware of middle […]

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Most of us have too much stuff. Even the people who think they have very little, probably still have things they don’t need or use. We have a multitude of […]

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Here is a short diary of what it is like to give up something for Lent. 2/17/2015 – Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, whatever that Tuesday is – start of Lent. […]

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My dad, whom I called Daddy or Beebee, cherished cars the way he cherished women. He was not a gear-head who cares about the horsepower of the engine or the […]

Thinking about April Fools’ Day since it’s today. Wasn’t it just the best when we were kids? Some of the jokes went unnoticed. Replacing hamburgers in the school lunch line […]

Why is it that my to-do list gets longer instead of shorter? A big part of my to-do list is phone calls. Getting anything done by phone is almost impossible. […]

I read a lot of books. I love novels. By the time I was in kindergarten I had read every children’s book in the library near our house. I graduated […]

Get really quiet. Turn off your phone. Get away from your computer and your television. Go someplace by yourself. Keep away from your journal. Stop thinking. Don’t ask for help, […]

Today I washed the kitchen floor. It’s my least favorite job. I love to do laundry, I don’t even mind scrubbing toilets, but for some reason I hate doing the […]

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What freedom. It never occurred to me to have no goals. I have always had goals. As a school girl my goal had been to get straight A’s. I would […]

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There is a tiger in the village picking off the residents one by one. She took a baby a few mornings ago. My husband was badly wounded trying to save […]

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We read to each other in the evenings. We started this tradition when David and I first met. He read out loud to me, starting with The Foundation Series by […]

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If I had written a Christmas letter for 2014, which I didn’t, I would have had to start with events at the end of 2013. Our daughter was nominated to […]

My family is made up of entrepreneurs. We have always worked for ourselves. Architecture, real estate, bookkeeping, it doesn’t matter as long as we have no boss. Working for yourself […]

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When I was in my twenties I tripped on a piece of broken walkway in front of a restaurant. I fell hard on the cement and cut open my chin. […]

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In September of 1978 one of my grandmother’s friends was moving to a nursing home and she gave me her “special occasion” table cloth. She had received it as a […]

Gratitude. This is not just a Thanksgiving word, although it is a word bantered around more at this time of year than any other time. It seems to have lost […]

I love a good pun, which by most people’s standards is a bad pun. I like the one that makes you groan rather than laugh. I am now groaning about […]

Lesson Learned Through Cancer

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Learning about life is an on-going process. Just when you think you have it down, something new comes along to tell you there are more things to learn. The lesson […]

Tech No! Heck Yes!

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Back to the blog. It has been some time since I have posted. I started working on a few other business ventures and this creative outlet went on the back […]

The new path is exciting and diverse. Here is some of what I am doing: 1) Teaching English at a language immersion school to mostly Latin American executives, although we […]

It never crossed my mind that I would have the chance to teach English professionally, but it is one of the things I am doing now. I grew up in […]

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It is nearly 10:30 in the evening and I am finally getting a chance to write about habits, as promised yesterday. I have been too busy, too distracted, too tired, […]

Just five days off from the blog and it could easily turn into a year. A habit takes 30 days to create but it can be broken in only a […]

As a story teller, I often take off on a tangent. I layer patina in my narrative to create depth and richness, bringing my listener back to the original characters […]

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If you are a factory worker and align this widget with that widget and bolt them together, you know your job and you are guaranteed a desirable outcome. Keep bolting […]