The prompt this week is to go back to last week’s entries. You are to use the last 10 words of the post next to yours and using just 100 words create a story. It may continue from the previous one or you may like to take it in a different direction. So: You find [...]
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100-Word Challenge: Handsome and Tall!
Posted in grumbling, holidays, humor, musings, rants, secrets, thoughts, tagged alone, complain, Easter eggs, Johnny Depp, journey, magic, survive, tea party on April 9, 2012 | 17 Comments »
100-Word Challenge for Grown Ups #36
Posted in grumbling, holidays, humor, musings, seasons, thoughts, tagged alone, grumble, skills, survive on March 30, 2012 | 26 Comments »
Now for this week’s prompt. As you know Julia likes to be topical so she’s thinking Easter. However, she’s thinking a little outside the box! The prompt is quite simple but the trick this week is to prepare for NEXT week! Check this out at Julia’s Place. You are to write a piece with the following: ….‘What [...]
This is a LOON
Posted in Feeling Great, friends, holidays, lifestyle, Pets, save, seasons, vacation, women, tagged alone, appreciate, CD, loon, magic, retired on March 29, 2012 | 25 Comments »
I’ve been asked what a loon is after Share Your World #16 was posted. Google and I went to work. There are a zillion videos. Here are a couple links you might enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqcvUasq3x4&feature=related You might enjoy playing this in the background as you read your blogs. I find this soothing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqcvUasq3x4&feature=related Grab a tea or coffee. [...]
Those Were the DAZE . . .
Posted in family, friends, holidays, humor, lifestyle, money, musings, rants, seasons, secrets, thoughts, vacation, women, tagged alive, alone, appreciate, celebration, dumb, journey, married, Patrick's, St on March 16, 2012 | 41 Comments »
In September, 1970, I left my parents, friends and a good job to begin anew. My childhood girlfriend wasn’t happy with her job either so we were going to meet in a town half-way between. She reneged. I was on my own. It wasn’t until January 1971 that I finally got a job. One of [...]
Your Daily Survival Guide for the New Year . . .
Posted in Comfort and Joy, friends, holidays, humor, musings, seasons, Uncategorized, tagged band-aid, candy kiss, elastic, eraser, gum, mint, pencil, tea bag, toothpick on January 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I am giving you a SURVIVAL KIT to help you each day… TOOTHPICK … to remind you to pick the good qualities in everyone, including yourself. RUBBER BAND … to remind you to be flexible. Things might not always go the way you want, but it can be worked out. BAND-AID … to remind you [...]
In Like a LION
Posted in age, books, Feeling Great, holidays, humor, lifestyle, musings, thoughts, women, tagged 11/22/63, alive, joy, King, oburate, wine, words on January 3, 2012 | 14 Comments »
So far 2012 has proved to be exciting and we’re only three days into the New Year. I have a confession to make. Since New Year’s Eve, I have been distracted, spending gleeful hours being amazed, amused and abstracted. You might guess it’s about a man. A talented smooth-talking-very-tall-man—talking very tall, that is. I’m tickled that [...]
Out With the Old; In With the New
Posted in age, books, family, friends, grandkids, holidays, humor, lifestyle, rants, seasons, thoughts, women, tagged alive, appreciate, content, crazy, journey, love, reading cramming, retired on December 31, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I don’t want to come off as too sappy although I suppose I’m going to anyway. This last year, although it’s passed much too quickly, has been good to me. These are some of the things I am grateful for. My granddaughters keep me young. I laugh more, smile often and am surprised easily. The four-year-old [...]
The Weight of Paper
Posted in books, grumbling, holidays, humor, lifestyle, musings, rants, save, seasons, thoughts, women on December 29, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Another year is coming to an end and I feel like I’m being buried alive. Again. Figuratively speaking of course. It’s this time of year that I try to scale back, to down size, to get out from under. I don’t always realize my goals. Paper is my worst enemy. Who was it that said [...]
A Different Kind of Christmas 2011
Posted in Christmas, Comfort and Joy, family, grandkids, holidays, humor, lifestyle, musings, seasons, thoughts, women, tagged alone, Christmas, love, survive on December 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It seems the gods are not on the same page as I am / we are. I’ve been cooking and preparing for a week for tonight’s traditional Christmas Eve feast. It’s not because I’m the first born that I’ve tried to squeeze in as much of the past into our new present. I like to [...]
Christmas Past, Present and Future
Posted in Christmas, family, grandkids, holidays, lifestyle, musings, seasons, thoughts, women, tagged Christmas, magical, necessities, pierniki, pierogies, St. Nicholas, turkey on December 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
My whole life Christmas Eve has been spent at the family home even as all of my siblings and I married, had children and then grandchildren. Even when the weather wasn’t friendly. We all headed to Babcia’s house. It was always a magical and festive time, rushing to dress up, fussing with wrapping gifts prettily in ribbons, [...]
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