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
2nd Life Travel
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Writing Under the Influence
My 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
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Lost Luggage and More
Journal 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
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From Sears Catalog to Amazon Shopping
Oh, 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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The Life of a Slurping Turtle
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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My Catholic Lenten Childhood
I am a six-year-old little girl with a folded piece of Kleenex bobby-pinned to the top of my head, sitting in my family church pew. I always forget to bring my chapel veil. My father gets us up every Sunday
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My Valentine in Heaven
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and this is the poem I would send to my Valentine, my husband. Always Valentine I’ll always be the one who looks at you, And sees you in a fond and loving light; I’ll always know
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8 Facts about Christmas Trees
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would
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Five Tips to Help You Choose a Writer’s Workshop/Retreat
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” ― Virginia Woolf Do you remember the first time you wrote a note
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The Sting of Prejudice
Mary and her siblings Growing up, I did not feel the sting of prejudice. My parents and grandparents taught me to not feel inferior or subordinate to anyone. Unlike recently arrived immigrants, my family has lived in what is now
