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The Dark of Night

Have you ever been driving on a dark-saturated country road at night and pulled over when an open area with no buildings or lights met...

Fertilizer or Escape?

What to do when we give someone chance after chance to accept our love, and they continue to hurt us? Day after day, year after year,...

Dropping Data Here and There

Doesn’t it drive you crazy when you are in the middle of conversing with someone and the point you were going to make literally drops...

Internal Boundaries

It is amazing how much you can get out of a picture, especially when you start with one theme and you accidentally create another theme,...

Vistas or Fortresses?

One day when my memories came up in Google photos (thank God my memories are somewhere!), I saw a picture of a castle window wherein the...

The Year of Unending Winter (#3)

OK, so I wrote the original The Year of Unending Winter a few years ago, but I like the title, so I’m using it for a third time/winter....

So I Ask Myself…

Sometimes I have to question myself as to why I think the things I think, and how on earth did I get started on the topic that I am...

Sinking in Quicksand

During the winter when we were kids, some of my siblings and I would go behind the grapevine arbor to this hollow that lay between trees...

Gifts and Ghosts

These days a lot of people have enough money to buy what they want and what they need whenever they need or want it. So coming up with...

Detrimentally Reliving Memories

I’ve been reliving a lot of memories lately. Some lovely, some difficult or painful. The lovely ones bring a smile to my face and joy in...

1980’s Ice Breaker – No, Not a Ship…

Back in the day when we only had landline phones, so we couldn’t carry our phones around with us and there was no texting, googling, etc....

Gauges or Bones

How do you know when bad weather is coming? You feel it in your bones. Depending on your age or physical health, it could be your whole...

Dragons and Tomfoolery

When I look down at my hands, I try to talk myself into acknowledging that I am sliding rather rapidly into an old lady. Usually, it...

Sonic, Art or Superfluous?

My computer’s desktop picture, which is the photo I used for this week's blog, is one of my favorite drawings by one of my grandsons. I...

The Eve Before Christmas Eve

We’re almost there! It’s the eve before Christmas Eve – don’t you just want to say, “and all through the house, not a creature was...

An Unexpected Turn

Covid was (is) a huge “hiccup” in our lives, but in some ways it has given us some unexpected changes that have become a new way of life...

Stuck-In-Your-Head

Picture it: I am washing some china, getting it ready to switch out with Christmas decorations, and we get a notice from Alexa that there...

Who’s Cooking the Turkey This Year

Where are you celebrating our “Be Thankful” Day this year? With the ease of travel these days, any one of us could end up pretty much...

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