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Thirteen Things I Learned In the Past Week

Posted in Thursday thirteen, family, tagged , , , on January 31, 2008 | 14 Comments »

Ninety-seven years is a long time but sometimes it’s not enough.
Family is family is family is family, no matter how often you see each other or not.
Just when you think you have things all planned out, life pulls the rug out from under you.
Make sure you are standing in a cushy spot when life pulls [...]

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Grandma’s Sandals

Posted in memoir, tagged , , , on January 25, 2008 | 14 Comments »

[Note: My grandmother is 97. Yesterday I got word that she has very little time left. Funeral arrangements have been made. I am flying out to Texas later today. This is a story I wrote about the times my grandma used to visit us when I was a little girls. [...]

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Secrets!

Posted in share a blog, tagged , , on January 23, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Today I want to share a blog with you. I think some of you will find it interesting. It’s called Secret, Secret, I’ve Got A Secret. And that’s exactly what you’ll find there. The blog owner, Paisley, posts secrets that are sent to her anonymously. Anyone can send her a [...]

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Samantha’s Slice of Life

Posted in 3 Word Wednesday, fiction, tagged , on January 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »

(3 Word Wednesday is a weekly prompt where three words are assigned. The task is to incorporate all three words into the piece of writing. This is my first attempt at the Wednesday 3. This week’s words are: breath, scattered, tomorrow.)
Samantha looked out the window before she headed out the door. [...]

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Ten Places I’d Like To Visit

Posted in life on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I searched the net for blogging prompts last night. I found a bunch of sites which I will link you to at the end of this post. First, though, I will write today’s post, taken from a prompt.
Ten places I’d like to visit in my lifetime, (and in my case more than half [...]

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Waterbed Questions Answered

Posted in Fun Stuff, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2008 | 28 Comments »

An old post of mine seems to be the reason for a lot of hits on my blog. Actually, there are several of my older posts that do this. This particular one is about waterbeds. In an effort to give my readers and other potential readers some answers, this post will [...]

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I Created A Monster!

Posted in mothers and daughters, tagged , , on January 19, 2008 | 12 Comments »

I created a monster and I didn’t even mean to.
When I was younger, much younger, I loved to take pictures. I had several of those 60’s and 70’s instant cameras and took tons of film with them. When I graduated from college, my mom gave me an SLR camera. I loved taking [...]

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The Everyday Hero

Posted in tribute, tagged , , , , on January 16, 2008 | 13 Comments »

What is an everyday hero? We all know one. Many of us are one. An everyday hero is one who acts nobly and charitably, unselfishly, every day, without regard to whether anyone will notice it or not. The everyday hero does this because it’s part of his/her character. They don’t [...]

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Attitude

Posted in attitude, tagged , , , , on January 14, 2008 | 10 Comments »

On our trip to Los Angeles last week, my daughter talked about moving back there. She has been up here for a year and a half. When she left L.A., she said she just couldn’t live there any more. She’d had it. Now she wants to go back. I’m not [...]

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Limbo Day

Posted in travel, tagged , on January 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I think this picture sums up the way I feel right now.
This is sort of the end of my trip but I’m not home yet. This photo was taken from the balcony of our hotel room in Santa Monica. It was a beautiful day with a clear view of the ocean when we [...]

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