• Happy Holidays are back!

    Growing up, I loved the holiday season. Beginning with Thanksgiving then Christmas and finally New Year’s. The decorations, festivities, family, food, fun! Love, love, love. I had a lot of family, extended through love and loss, but it didn’t matter. Come Christmastime, they made it work. Because it was Christmastime. There were family gatherings with relatives you only…

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  • YES!ember

    I am pleased to say that my “no-ing” has paid off. To the tune of 56,799 words.   This NaNoWriMo was one of the easiest so far for me to complete. In part because once I got into telling my story, I found there was much story to tell, but also because this year I…

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  • The older I get…

    Aging brings repetition. Sure, that might reference your elderly relative and that one story that gets repeated every time you’re together. It also might reference how many times you enter a room not sure why. It could also simply be the number of times you’ve done something you’ve done before. The older we get, the more things do we do on…

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  • “NO”vember

    Obviously not everyone got the “Not Now, it’s NaNo” memo. Including me. Barring things I had already committed to… Book Club, In Print, Prompt Club, Bunco, a lunch date, a dental appointment, a surprise party, and those annual November things like birthdays and Thanksgiving, I had vowed to just say no. “I won’t volunteer, I won’t commit to…

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  • Cupdate

    Cupdate

    Well, will you lookit that! I posted a proactive blog one day and the very next day I’m posting progress! I can happily check “Stop @ Cemetery” off my Cup List. On my way home from Rockford yesterday, I slowed upon approach, flicked on my blinker, and pulled into the short drive of the nameless cemetery…

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  • Cup List

    There are a lot of things I want to do before I die. My “Bucket List” is quite long. Things like European travel, book publication, and being animated are at the top, but there are a lot of little things I want to do, too. Smaller things. Things that make the daily to-do list but don’t seem…

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  • I had to have a tooth extracted a couple of weeks ago. It was a horrendous experience. Three and half hours and four shots of Novocain later, I was one tooth shorter and traumatized for life. They had to dig it out. Practically climbing onto my chest for leverage. Drilling, splintering, and gouging tooth fragments…

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  • Not now, it’s NaNo!

    Well, not yet… but soon! After a crazy busy hectic social creative weekend (week, month, year), I’m practicing my mantra for November. For those of you who don’t know, NaNo is short for NaNoWriMo which is short for National Novel Writing Month. Fifty thousand words in thirty days. That’s nearly 1700 words a day*– sounds…

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  • Is that even a question? I don’t care what your passions are, if you have the opportunity to step off the spinning merry-go-round of daily duties that is your life and spend uninterrupted days pursuing said passions– of course you should retreat! I just spent four glorious days and three nights in New Glarus, WI at…

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  • Birthday Week

    It’s impossible to fit all of the celebrating into one day. I mean, c’mon, we’ve survived another whole year! And the way things have been going through the past couple, coming out on the other side is truly a cause to celebrate. I’m sure you are familiar. Whatever they may be, I know you, too, have “things”.…

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