Mary Lamphere
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Do you have one? I have one. (I have two.) I bet you have one. How could you not? I don’t care how organized and OCD you are, some stuff is unorganizable. “A place for everything and everything in it’s place”, right? Right. (chuckle, eye roll) It’s not a personal observation or criticism, honest, it’s
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When you have the opportunity to spend a day with friends you rarely see and it involves an early morning meet on the day that you usually (pretty reliably) blog, well, you have to consider your priorities. Friendship totally trumps the Monday missives. So the Monday Blog has become the
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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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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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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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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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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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