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Apologetic Teapots

My mother has this cool collection of teapots. A lot of them came from my dad. Some of them are rather elegant and some are simple or...

Imagining Living There

Where have you always wished you could live? A ritzy, rich person’s modern mansion with all the bells and whistles – which are getting...

I Can’t Heeear You…

My husband and I laugh often at how we hear each other incorrectly. I think it’s a combination of his bad hearing (even with hearing...

Just DO IT!

There have been points in my life when I was just plain exhausted and didn’t feel like doing whatever needed doing: exercising, cleaning,...

I Miss My Younger Self…

You may not believe it unless you knew me back then, but yes, I was young and gorgeous once. Yes, I was. You don’t have to argue with me...

A Huge, Longish Word

Confidence. Synonymous somewhat with lion (my personality blog 12/29/23), but attainable regardless of your main personality traits. It...

Gadgets and Machineries

You knew I would follow up with some data info, right? I had to because there were a few new-to-me gadgets being used at the last...

Agreeably Spent Time

Elaborating on last week’s blog, I was thinking about one of my favorite memories of surgeries (what? there are favorite memories of...

Strained Hovering

[For anyone who knows us, this is not in the present – no worries.] I am sitting in a surgical waiting room for the sixth time during my...

Are You Cold Yet?

We sure had a break from typical winter weather the last two months, but when winter came at last, it descended properly with arctic...

Middle of the Night Terrors

Watching scary moves can be detrimental to our sleep. Nights when nightmares, demons, or imaginations run wild... Don’t drink a lot...

Who Said You Can’t Be You?

Have you ever taken a personality test? Were you surprised by the outcome? I took one once that also had a section that revealed whether...

NO SNOW!

What? No snow for Christmas – in Michigan? I am afraid it has been known to happen, although not very many times. I remember one year...

The Crux of it All

I am sitting in a hospital parking lot, waiting for my husband to return from a doctor appointment, so we can run some errands. I’m...

Will We Lose Our Poets?

In one of my recent blogs, I said, “I could google it, but I would rather ponder over it.” And that got me thinking about the way things...

Santa and the Big Horses

If you have ever attended Manistee Michigan’s Victorian Sleighbell Parade, you know how special it is. It’s a step into the past,...

A Singing Turkey?

A turkey that sings “Feliz Navidad”? Don’t we just get our holidays all jumbled together? Especially the stores? Winter clothes on the...

Love is a Verb

Many years ago, I read an article written by a marriage counselor on the key to a great marriage. The counselor, wanting to know why some...

The Tortoise and The Hare

Maybe you are a Type A, run-around-everyone-else kind of person and your spouse/partner is a one-thing-at-a-time tortoise kind of person....

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