Category: CHATTER
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MS Awareness Month – A Personal Experience with Infusion Therapy
Oh! The irony…. The first stick today at the infusion center was in a vein just below my wrist staight down from my right thumb. It stung like crazy. The nurse, a very happy, kind young woman in her 20’s had to move the IV to the left side of my left arm. I was…
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Photographer
Not a word I ever thought people would use when describing me. It was about 19 years ago when I taught a class of women at church one evening about how to take better pictures with their own cameras. Of course, in doing so, I showed some of my pictures for examples when describing how…
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Timing is Everything
Roundabout a Jump Rope Our small city has several roundabouts strewn about the roadway system. Some brilliant person thought these would make progress through these intersections quicker than a 4-way stop. OR… The minds who came up with this plan were great jump ropers in their childhood and thought this would be the perfect way…
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Enjoying Retirement
When my dad was my age, he was retired, as was my mom. My parents traveled to see us where we lived in the upper Midwest at the time. Those were the best years for my mom. She loved to travel, which must be where I get my love of traveling and adventure! Numerous events…
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First Ever Short Story
If I won the lottery, depending on how much money it was, I would pay off my house, my mom’s house, my sister’s house, give each of my grown daughters 50K, put the rest in the bank, and quit my job so I could spend more time with my family, and more time writing…. I…
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Enjoying a Moment
Sitting quietly in the living room slightly reclined on the sofa, I am breathing easy and wishing for many calm relaxing moments like this. My husband is resting in bed. I am sitting here alone with my thoughts and my laptop. It is a frigid 13 degrees outside, but a toasty 73 degrees inside. My…
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Not Breaking out the Shorts Yet
Longview, Texas? Tyler, Texas? St. George, Utah? What do these places have in common? They are WARM places we have been considering for our next place to live, in the not-so-distant future. We are definitely going to go on a road trip to Longview and Tyler, just not sure how soon. We are leaning toward…
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CHARCUTERIE
I used to think cheese, crackers and sausage were the best snack ever…second of course to buttery popcorn. When I had my first experience with a charcuterie board, the layout spoke to my artist brain and the food spoke loudly my healthy food cravings, with a little sugar thrown in for good measure. (Can’t offer…
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1000 Books
Our oldest daughter announced to us at our Christmas family gathering, then announced on Facebook (because if it is on Facebook, then it really happened) that she set a goal in 2024 to read 1000 books. And, she achieved that goal! Divide that by 365 to know how many books she needed to average DAILY.…
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Our Life is Like…
Joe and I were lying awake this morning talking about life as we like to do these days. He said living with me has been like living life at an amusement park. “What?! How so?” He said sometimes you go and have so much fun you can hardly stand it. Sometimes, you are at the…
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More Time…
with my Dad. That is not possible, so I just marinate in the memories. Two years before Dad died, which was last January, he got Covid 19. It robbed him of his ability to smell and taste everything except tomatoes for the rest of his life. He was not in the best of health for…
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Happy New Year
What are your biggest challenges? Apparently, one of my biggest challenges is remembering to take pictures with my family on the holidays. It is regretful. Next year, there will be no photo that will pop up in my memories on my phone from a year ago. No photo memory of today – January 1, 2025.…
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