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Honesty Is the Best Policy…

…but it might get you in a pinch!

Anhinga tagged me with the Honest Scrap award for bloggers who have written honsestly on their blogs.  I think that’s most of us but I’ll accept it, however it leaves me in a pinch because I can’t think of a lot of stuff I haven’t been honest about [...]

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One of the most exotic acquisitions during this time period was a Jaguar–not the kind that eats and prowls and growls–but the kind with four wheels that moved as sleek as a cat and purred like a kitten.  It was a beautiful car.  The cream colored beauty had matching leather interior with highly glossed wood [...]

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Let Me Tell You

This is a short thing I wrote as an assignment a few years ago.  The prompt was “Let Me Tell You”.  As I’m traveling, it’s hard to post and I came across this on a CD so I’m sharing it with you today.
Let me tell you about Susie… Susie is my sunshine. She [...]

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Waiting For It To Pass

Sometimes, as much as we try to ignore the past, it stalks us and forces us to remember.  The more we try to put it behind us, the more it remains at the surface of  our daily thoughts.  At some point, it passes.
Waiting for it to pass.

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This is my favorite Christmas story. It’s about the night that I was born. I have posted this elsewhere over the years.
DECEMBER 25, 1955
María lay in bed exhausted, yet unable to sleep. She’d had an endless day and had just finished putting out the gifts for her four children. Tomorrow would be filled with [...]

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Okay, Here I Go…

Amuirin tagged me for this meme and I’ll play because it’s been a long time since I’ve been tagged and because I need a post for today.  Below you’ll find the “Rules” and my 7 random facts about me.  And for the record, I won’t be tagging anyone but I will list 7 blogs I [...]

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Okay, I have procrastinated long enough. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been tagged for this meme FOUR times. So Deadpan, Tigereye, Elissa, and Someone-Else-That-I-Can’t-Remember, here you go!
Here are the rules (I do memes my way so don’t be surprised if I fudge on the rules). I have to post five [...]

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Amuirin tagged me for this Meme of Fours the other day. Here are my answers.
4 words to describe my response to this meme: interesting, telling, fun, short.
4 jobs I’ve had: sales clerk at Sears; sales clerk at Knotts Berry Farm; administrative assistant at a school district; school teacher.
4 movies I’ll watch over and over: [...]

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Six Guilty Pleasures (Meme)

Truddle tagged me for this meme after Scout tagged her! So here goes:
Name six guilty pleasures no one would suspect you of having:
1. I love to eat rice pudding rolled up inside of a flour tortilla. Trust me, it’s not as gross as it sounds.
2. I like to watch movies that are dubbed [...]

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