What Happened to Self-Reflection?

I already know that by writing this post, I’m going to come off as a Neanderthal in the field of modern communications, but there’s something I have to get off my chest.  Namely, why has everyone adopted the cell phone as a necessary requirement of their daily existence?  Everywhere I go, and I mean everywhere, [...]

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Animal Thoughts…

I’ve never been what you could call an “animal ” person.  It’s more from lack of experience than dislike. When I was a little girl, I briefly had a cat named Tuffy.  One day when I came home from school, the cat couldn’t be found.  When I asked my dad about it, he explained that [...]

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The Pixies Know…

The pixies who live in the tiny houses beneath my shrubbery have been reporting the appearance of giant leaves which are starting to litter their “grounds.”

One day, everything was bright and sunny, then today, the wind is blowing ferociously and they’re faced with this. It wouldn’t take many leaves this size to cover their entire [...]

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Beyond Politics and Markets…

Today when I sat down to read the morning paper, I made a conscious decision to NOT read any articles concerning the Presidential campaign, the markets, the economy and the overnight homicides in my city.  Just yesterday it seemed that the TV and radio were just bombarding me with bad news every five minutes, with [...]

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Aging…in little bits

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I had a tooth break off earlier this week.  Although I don’t see my dentist until Friday, I have a feeling I know what he’ll say, “This doesn’t look good.”  Duh.  I already know that.  The tooth is dead and there’s not enough of it to crown.  He’ll [...]

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Up in Smoke!

Did you ever have a certain place that was so interwoven with memories that it just became a part of your life?
Such a place for me was a certain restaurant in my city, which has been in business for fifty years.  It was a warm and welcoming steak house with big private wooden booths, wonderful [...]

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That “Uh-oh” Feeling

I shoulda known…
I had had a totally uneventful dental year until a couple of months ago when a tooth abscessed and I had to have a very difficult root canal done by a very expensive specialist.  (The root was so curved that my regular dentist didn’t want to attempt it.) That shot me up to [...]

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Political Venom is Pointless

Has anyone else but me noticed that this Presidential campaign has driven the whole world crazy?  It’s more than the endless political ads on television that repeat themselves ad infinitum. It’s more than all the slanted newspaper and magazine stories.  No, what I find really distressing are all the hate-filled diatribes being launched from [...]

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Did You Smell That?

The smell of newly-mown hay immediately transports me back to long family car vacations when we would travel through miles and miles of farmland on our way to somewhere exciting.  I can get a mere whiff of a peony and see my grandma strolling through her backyard garden, picking a bouquet just for me.  The [...]

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Some Toys We Never Outgrow

She might have been the homeliest doll ever created, but in my eyes, she was beautiful.  When I was a very little girl, a doll came out that I knew I must have!  Her name was “Poor Pitiful Pearl,” and the idea was that she was a pathetic little orphan doll who just needed someone [...]

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