Mary Lamphere
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WHAT DAY IS IT?! Memorial Day is like the Wednesday of seasons. Halfway between School ending and Summer beginning. Some have completed the school year. Others are eagerly counting down the days–of which this one delays the finality. But the end is near…and soon, summer will commence. It’s a gorgeous, warm, sunny day here in
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The impetus for today’s post was based on finding a bag of Easter basket goodies that I bought this year and then forgot about. Being non-perishable, I was going to pack them up for next year. Then I reconsidered. Now is good, I told myself. So I passed the items on. Then I thought, “Now
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Again. As many of you know, we are Corgi people. Our Original Corgi Crew consisted of three Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Nellie, Ozzie, and Buehrle. Six years ago, we began our Corgi Crew 2 with Miskey. A year later, we added Jackson. There was a temporary expansion, but we’ve been a 2-corgi family for four years.
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I am purposely posting late because my Book Club discussed Then She Was Gone this morning and I wondered if my review would change based on our conversation. It did not. Full Title : Then She Was Gone – A NovelAuthor: Lisa JewellGenre: Women’s Domestic Life Fiction Brief Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old golden child, Ellie, disappears and her family falls
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I believe it is very important for people to travel. Regardless of how you get there, you need to explore life outside your bubble. There’s a whole big, crazy, different, interesting and WEIRD world to be experienced! I open my current Weird List with this sentiment because I realize weird is subjective and I do
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Cold.Scary.Expensive.Awesome.Interesting.Filling. I love being there, I hate getting there.A few weeks ago, for the first time in a looooooong time, I spent a few days downtown with two delightful, engaging, and wonderful friends. We walked, trained, Ubered, taxied. We wandered, dined, shopped. I took them to my favorite free destination, the Chicago Cultural Center. We
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While lying awake in bed last night, my mind as active as the flurry of April snow (for those of you who didn’t wake to the white stuff, it SNOWED here last night), I thought to myself, there is NO WAY I’m going to be able to post a blog in the morning. I have
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Full Title: Wrong Place Wrong TimeAuthor: Gillian McAllisterGenre: Women’s Psychological Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Brief Synopsis: After a woman witnesses her son stab a stranger, she wakes a day prior to the crime, and each day after is actually another time before. Struggling to solve the mystery of the murder, she experiences her life in reverse with the
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It’s OFFICIAL!I jinxed the White Sox with the post.Sorry, Dave. Spring has arrived.Know how I know? The weather? Nope.The calendar? Nope.Robin sightings? Nope.OPENING DAY! Home-opener for the White Sox is a sacred holiday in my circle.After a long, cold, and sportally dissatisfying winter, hope is in the air.Like rain. Or snowflakes. (Hence why weather is
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I am constantly distracted. Part curiosity, part adventure, part procrastination. I often find myself meandering off track, sometimes even darting, for some shiny new treasure that is not what I am supposed to be focusing on. This happens most often with story ideas. And housework. But let’s stay on point here, okay? Story ideas. For
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