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Where you can just get into your own head…
I’ve been driving my Chevy Tahoe for 12 years now. With 108, 098 miles on the odometer, it still runs like a top. I take it for service every 3,000 miles like clockwork. While having it serviced...
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Like an Ocean…
For the most part, I love my Tuesdays. Typically I spend the morning hours working on a yacht. I don’t mean swabbing decks or polishing banisters…other folks take care of that. To clarify, I work...
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Crap Culture…it’s enough already
The media’s obsession with Hollywood is nauseating. I mean, honestly, does anyone CARE how many times Kim Kardashian has changed her clothes today? Is there some reason we need to be following...
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Thoughts on Motherhood..
Motherhood can conjure up a vast array of emotions, deeply personal and significantly intimate for every woman who has ever experienced that special journey. Yesterday, I was especially struck by this...
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To the ‘short and fat mother of the groom’: Please READ this.
It’s springtime and wedding season is clearly blooming. How do I know for sure? I’m finding more and more traffic on my essay, titled “Who Says You Can’t Wear Black To Your Son’s Wedding?”...
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Criminals and Cancer…they have a lot in common.
When’s the last time you took a look something completely random that made you stop and think ‘now that’s just wrong!’ Today, I looked (I mean REALLY looked) at this mailbox that’s been in my...
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Looking for your feedback on Chapter One…
I’m making good progress on my memoir, and would very much appreciate your taking the time to read what is likely to become the opening chapter. I would sure appreciate any comments or feedback you...
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Pondering the Worth of a Roof Rat
The Associated Press ran a news story today that caught my attention. It was about the Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, who apparently wasn’t in a ‘pardoning mood’ when he gave a ‘smack down’...
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Frankie Valli, where you been?
Absorbed in my computer work this evening, I’ve had the television on for background noise. It’s tuned to the results show for American Idol. (I already spoiled it for myself by glancing at Google...
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The Partnership of Horse Racing
I was so excited to see that Gary Stevens was the jockey who won the Preakness yesterday. Now here’s a guy who’d already had an amazing career. He was inducted into the Jockey Hall of Fame back in...
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It’s been just that kind of day…
It wasn’t until early afternoon that I suddenly realized exactly what was going on with my hair. It’s been just that kind of day. What little time I spent behind my eyelids last night was not nearly...
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The Ultimate Gift
I’m flying high, but I’m coming down fast. At a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet, I’m settled nervously into my aisle seat as this big bird soars through the skies across the Sierra’s. I’m tired,...
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Parenting: It’s a Two-Step Playbook
“What’s the best advice you can give me?” This was the question I was asked recently about the subject of parenting. I don’t know Anthony well. He’s a member of the wealth management team that...
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Has Integrity Become Obsolete?
Left with a sense of frustration that’s been building over a variety of things, I’m disheartened. It’s been a long day and I’m completely spent. Today I worked a lot of hours helping to unravel the...
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Miley, are you SERIOUSLY interested to become the poster child for ‘twerking’?!?
Holy smokes. Not being an avid follower of MTV or their music awards show, the national news has more than adequately covered the antics of Miley Cyrus on the recent MTV awards show. The buzz is all...
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Perseverance, Thick Skin and Debbie Macomber
This is NOT my mom, but this is how she looks when she’s reading! My mom just FLEW through Debbie Macomber’s new book, called ‘Rose Harbor in Bloom’. Mom tends to power through any book if she finds it...
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Here On Earth With You
This evening I was cruising around on WordPress, reading blog posts by other writers. I stumbled across a post that especially caught my attention, titled The Cancer Book. It’s written by the wife of a...
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It begins with you, Mr. President
I’m sorry Congress, but this partial shutdown of government you’ve managed to pull off on the American people is not acceptable. We have elected you to be leaders. You certainly campaigned on your...
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Don’t Look Back
It was startling to find, and difficult to confirm. Even though my doctor told me the imagery was clear, I knew that there was something amiss. To appease me, she sent me on for an ultrasound. I had...
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Do You Take Your Surroundings For Granted?
As I review the iPhone photos that I took last weekend while hiking a local area with my dear friend, I wonder how many of us really take the time to notice our surroundings. I mean, really notice....
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