It’s all about You
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Happy New Year. Happy fresh start. Happy do-over. Or redo-over. Or do-new. 2016 was quite a year. These are just words on a screen. Any tone you read was drawn of your own implication. But you did read that with tone, didn’t you? You couldn’t help it. It was quite a year. To be fair,…
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Congratulations! You have officially survived Christmas. All those weeks of planning, prepping, buying, baking, carding, cleaning, and wrapping have paid off. (in the words of those oh-so-popular-this-time-of-year infomercials) BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! The myriad of things you didn’t get done have come due. For every Christmas accomplishment, there was an, “Oh, I’ll do that after Christmas,” or a,…
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I truly believe there is only so much you can know at any given time. I’m pretty sure I’m at capacity, which is why I’m so forgetful. At my age, every time I learn something new, something else gets pushed out. It’s a pretty common theory amongst the absentminded. And the aging. It’s amazing what…
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As most of you know by now, one of my passions is a little project I call Word of Art. It’s a fabulous collaboration of authors and artists, sponsored by In Print Professional Writers’ Organization, that culminates in a gallery show, reception with program, and hard cover, full-color publication. In our third year, we are…
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11 a.m. Labor Day and I just realized it’s Monday. Now, of course, I know it’s MONDAY, it’s Labor Day! But…I blog on Mondays…and yet… So, in honor of the holiday, this is it, folks… no “real” blog, just a genuine, heartfelt, enthusiastic Labor Day Prayer: May your arms reach wide, Your back be strong, Your…
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The Golden Rule is do unto others as you would have them do unto you. But you know that. Whatever happened to don’t knock it till you try it? Sometimes followed by, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all? When did our point of view become more important than each other? Our…
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I can check a couple more things off my Cup List! Thanks to the support and encouragement of some great friends, after driving past it twenty times a week, I finally had lunch at Noodles & Company. And now I’m okay with simply driving by. The company was fabulous! The noodles? Meh. But I wanted to go and…
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After watching a movie called Ex Machina, Dave and I were discussing our earliest memories. It’s funny the things you remember. When I was like four or five, one night my mom and I came home from a picnic and interrupted a break-in at our apartment. They set the end of the sofa on fire…
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We recently saw the movie Ride Along 2 (don’t judge me), and although it was pretty much what you’d expect, a B- comedy, there was one line that resonated with me. In defense of his irritating, obnoxious, try-too-hard, needy brother-in-law to be as played by Kevin Hart, trust nobody detective Ice Cube says something to the…
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Remember having to wait beside a very attached telephone in anticipation of BIG NEWS? No, you probably don’t. Good things used to come to those who waited. Ain’t nobody got time for that now. Immediate gratification. Is that too much to ask for? Obviously…
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