Recent Entries

• Online Learning

  July 20, 2020

  My granddaughter started her first class of online virtual learning today. It was through a technology school that partners with our local high school. She’s studying Law Enforcement, so it will be interesting to see how this all works out. Her teachers, who for the most part are retired law enfo...

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• Missing in Action

  July 6, 2020

  I’ve been missing in action lately because I’ve been traveling. Yes, traveling to these beautiful places in nature even during this Coronavirus pandemic. We are experiencing daily spikes in the number of new virus cases in Arizona. Many are spending more time outside, visiting lakes and other loc...

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• My Dad

  June 21, 2020

       My dad was one of the greatest influencers in my life. To the outside world, I’m sure he appeared as a quiet man. He was in many ways. I can’t remember him ever raising his voice in reprimand or anger. His method of discipline was to sit with the person whom he felt…

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• Discoveries

  June 9, 2020

  I grew up spending many of my childhood weekends at my paternal grandmother’s and grandfather’s home. Gramps, as I called him, was the only grandfather I ever knew. He was a loveable character of Irish descent. One of my fondest memories is Gramps giving me a dollar to spend at the five and dime ...

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• Always and Forever

  June 2, 2020

  “Love never dies. Love will continue. Love keeps on beating when you're gone. Love never dies once it is in you. Life may be fleeting; love lives on...”  ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber     My husband passed away four years ago, and on most days, I can accept that his time had come. He is…

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• What’s Your Story

  May 19, 2020

    Recently Netflix and I had a date night, and I got to choose the movie. I choose The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It’s a story set in England on the Island of Guernsey in the years following WWII. A young successful writer, Juliet Ashton, yearns to write something more me...

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• Unconditional Love

  May 5, 2020

  For the last couple of days, I’ve been taking care of our precious fur baby. I just hate it when he has a flare-up. A few days ago, after enjoying his typical morning and early afternoon activities, our dog suddenly collapsed. He followed me into a room I was rearranging, and as I turned toward&h...

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• Procrastinating

  April 25, 2020

  After my husband passed away, I eventually moved in with my daughter and granddaughter, three generations of women under one roof. Luckily, we all get along well with each other. However, to say that it was an adjustment is an understatement. One of the major adjustments I had to make was trying ...

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• CHANGE HAPPENS

  April 19, 2020

    I’m tiptoeing in after an absence of many years. I can’t really say how much writing I will do, but I miss the community of friends that I came to know on this site.  I spent 10+ years here writing the wanderings of my mind and the hopes and dreams of my heart. I…

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