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It's time to let go...

posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
This past year has been filled with many losses for me. Some of them I have been hanging on to for far too long. I don't know exactly why, but I have needed to brood over some and try to make sense of their impact on my life.

As this new year sta...

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Bye Mom...I loved you dearly.

posted over 2 years ago | 7 comments
My Mom died June 23rd. She was 87 years old and had never really been ill. She did not have any chronic diseases nor did she take any perscription medications. The first of April she was driving about and shoping, visiting Dad's grave at the cemet...

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46 Years Ago

posted over 3 years ago, updated 4 minutes later | 16 comments
It was cold and blowing on the day that we got married, just like today. Our wedding was tiny and timed to take place during the Christmas break at Michigan State University where we were both students. After the wedding we had a lunch reception a...

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An Affirmation

posted over 3 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 2 comments
Your presence, is a present to the world.

You're unique and one of a kind.

Your life can be, what you want it to be.

Take the days, just one at a time.

Count your blessings, not your troubles.

You'll make it through, whatever comes along...

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I have to start thinking about fall...

posted over 3 years ago, updated 10 minutes later | 2 comments
It's coming...I can see the signs everywhere.
The grocery is carrying fresh cider and huge piles of apples and winter squash and pumpkins.
The air is chill when I pad out to the mailbox for the morning paper and I have to put on slippers instead ...

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Grandma's Iris

posted over 3 years ago | 5 comments
I never met my Mother's mother...she died when Mom was less than a year old. I know from family stories that she wrote poetry and that she was born the same day as my Mom's Dad and joked with him about being an hour older and so, therefore, the 'b...

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My Favorite Season

posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
Spring
By Steve Lucas

I know that spring is comin' boys,
let me tell you what I've seen
The grass on the slopes north of the house
has started turning green.

The snowdrift out behind the barn is
Fast meltin' away,
The cows are keepin' the...

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One Room Country School

posted over 3 years ago | 5 comments
Telling people that you went to a one room country school is much like telling them that you were born in a log cabin. The response is one of wonderment...can you actually be THAT old? But, I did...go to a one room country school. I was born in a ...

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March Maddness!

posted over 3 years ago, updated 4 days later | 1 comment
My favorite time of year! Basketball until I can't see straight.

Thursday, March 20 at 12:30
Michigan State University vs Temple

GO SPARTANS!!!

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What a winter!

posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
I heard on the morning news that we set a record for the most snow in February in all of recorded time. Whoopee! I have shoveled more snow this winter than I can remember in years and now...
I am ready for it to stop!
Please!

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