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“Beggars Can’t Be Choosers”

Posted in life, memoir, tagged , , , , , on October 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »

While reading this morning’s newspaper, I came across this story which relayed an incident in a local elementary school. A third grader’s lunch tray was taken from her and thrown in the trash by a cafeteria worker when she went to pay and her account had zero in it. The cafeteria worker went on to [...]

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Nanowrimo, Names, Plots, & Canolli

Posted in NaNoWriMo, tagged , , , on October 26, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Nanowrimo is fast approaching and I don’t have names for my main character. Help! I need both first and last names for a young man (teen ager) that is half Italian. I wanted something like Jake but is Jacob an Italian name? A good one? I guess it could be because he’s only half Italian. [...]

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Smile

Posted in just musing, life, tagged , on October 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »

While consulting the internet for a list of topics to write about and post on my blog I came across a question that struck my fancy. It read: “What is one thing you really like about yourself?” I’m not one for tooting my own horn so I would normally turn away from this type of [...]

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The Nana Diaries–Part Three

Posted in family, life, tagged , , , , on October 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »

In The Nana Diaries Part One and Part Two, I talked about how my mom recently visited me for a couple of weeks. I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea. I love my mom and I am very glad that we got to spend this time together. I had not spent more than [...]

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Works For Me

Posted in mom duties, tagged , , , , on October 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »

I’ve been searching for blog memes for each day of the week so I can get some blogging ideas. It’s that time of the year when I am preparing for NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo at the same time. I thought I would write some blog posts ahead of time and save them so I can post [...]

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Oops!

Posted in life, mothers and daughters, on my own, women, tagged , on October 21, 2008 | 15 Comments »

I’m 52 years old but my hair is almost entirely (well about 80%) white, which makes me look at least ten years older. I’ve been dying my hair for many years. I do it at home from one of those bottles you can buy at WalMart or Target or Big Lots. About two years ago, [...]

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Just One Bite

Posted in just musing, memoir, writing from a prompt, tagged on October 20, 2008 | 19 Comments »

When I was married (at least two lifetimes ago) my husband and I shared everything, even the food off of our plate. We gladly gave each other a bite of whatever we happened to be eating. This was just the way it was with us. We didn’t know any different. It wasn’t a big deal.

My [...]

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Voting

Posted in memoir, tagged , , , on October 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I haven’t missed voting in an election since I registered in 1974 at age 18. The first election I voted in was my state’s (California) Gubernatorial election when we (myself included) elected Gerry Brown, Jr. in June of 1974. To me, voting is a crucial right; one that I hate to waste, so I dutifully [...]

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flannel

Posted in life, tagged , , on October 16, 2008 | 11 Comments »

I’m trying to limit my use of the heater this winter.  In fact, I’m determined not to turn it on until the end of November, if at all possible.  At least I won’t turn it on if I’m the only one in the house.
The other night, the temperature dropped outdoors and when I went to [...]

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The Nana Diaries–Part Two

Posted in TV, family, life, mothers and daughters, politically incorrect, tolerance, tagged on October 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »

As I wrote in Nana Diaries Part One, my mom has been visiting. In the evenings, she sits in the living room and watches her novelas (Spanish language soap operas) which air only on weekdays. She doesn’t have anything that she watches on weekend nights. I don’t watch a lot of TV but there are [...]

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