Hello Everyone, I want to thank you for reading my blog. I haven’t posted for almost a year. This has not been a good year. I have had two successful shoulder replacements. I broke my wrist five weeks ago
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Hello Everyone, I want to thank you for reading my blog. I haven’t posted for almost a year. This has not been a good year. I have had two successful shoulder replacements. I broke my wrist five weeks ago
Read moreMy good friend Tina and I walk our dogs, an Australian Shepard named Sunny and a Cocker Spaniel named Chloe, around Fountain Park in Fountain Hills Arizona. We meet at 5:00 in the morning because the day heats to 108F
Read moreJournal Entry Florence, Italy May 16, 2023 It has been an exciting day. Lesson 1 learned today: Don’t wait for your bags to go through customs at Heathrow, London. Bags are automatically sent to your connecting flight, which is
Read moreOh, the things I remember growing up! Do you remember getting the JC Penny or Sears catalog in the mail? If you don’t then this post will be obsolete. The catalogs were big enough to stack on the chair at
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“Hello, I am in room 425, and I am stuck in the bathtub.” I played this conversation over in my head as I tried to get out of a bathtub in Redondela, Spain. After fifteen kilometers in seven hours, our
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“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain My friend Ruth Ann and I are still friends. We were together
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The Windiest Road in Arizona The windiest road, Coronado Highway, aka Devil’s Highway (666), is Arizona’s windiest road. When you look it up online, you will find that it has over 460 curves, and if you fear not knowing what
Read moreThese wonderful ladies attended the first Women Writers’ Workshop in Prescott, Az. They learned how to throw out adverbs and expand on their senses of smell, hear, taste, and sight. We ate at Farm Provisions for lunch and Carmella’s for
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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou. “You
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The Slurping Turtle is a ramen restaurant in Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio. I am not a ramen fan, but I couldn’t resist the suggestion by my daughter and her friends to indulge in the seven choices of ramen
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