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April Showers and Sunshine
April used to be a month of celebrations for my family. There were four April birthdays; my son, my husband and two brothers-in-law. It marked…
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The Rule of Two
Recently, my Best Friend In the Whole World (BFITWW) graciously helped me out of a tight situation by going into my closet to retrieve…
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Remembrance
My brother-in-law passed away last month. He was a kind man. A retiree, he volunteered many hours with the Boy Scouts of America. The local…
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Shopping with a Holiday-Fried Brain, Giants in the Hills and Cashew Moments
Like so many others during the holiday season, I find myself making multiple trips to the grocery store to buy that one special ingredient…
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Travel Tips – The 15 Day Cruise
My Best Friend in the World and I recently returned from a fifteen day cruise to Hawaii. Hawaii is a uniquely beautiful place – everything…
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Fleet Week – San Francisco, CA
On October 8th, I was in San Francisco to see the Canadian Snow Birds and the Blue Angels perform in honor of Fleet Week. Both…
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Up, Up and Away!
Just some pretty pictures from the Reno, Nevada Balloon Races earlier this month. (It really was worth getting up at 3:30 to see this!) …
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The Invasion of the Time Snatchers
I was taught that a ringing phone deserved to be answered. It meant that someone, usually someone you knew, was asking to talk to you.…
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Self Pity and KFAT
I’m at one of those places in life referred to as a “cross road.” After completing the three-hundred-fiftieth revision of my children’s book manuscript, I…
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The Secret Lives of Lost Socks and Other Misplaced Items
Most of us have had the experience of misplacing something. We usually start the search for the missing item by looking for it…
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Surviving the Heat Wave
The temperature in California dropped today – from a high of 108 yesterday to a mere 102 today. We are in luck, though, since Sunday’s…
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How to Survive in an Airport
The hardest part of any trip that requires an airplane flight is spending time in the airport. Granted, the flight experience itself is pretty awful.…
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