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Cali 'Splains Buying Airplane Tickets...

posted 2 months ago | 9 comments
Well, it's been fifteen months of grounded bliss, here on Terra Firma. And so, it's time to brave the big silver bird again. This time, it's a trip to Chicago.

And, for the first time in my life, I had to book the flight all by myself. I h...

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Friday Night....

posted 2 months ago | 4 comments
Well, the weekend's here. And I have so much to do that I don't quite know where to begin. I have Christmas put away, mostly, but the house is a mess. There is furniture to be moved, bags of stuff to take to Goodwill, and dishes in the sink.

At t...

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Stolen Chances...

posted 2 months ago, updated 4 minutes later | 6 comments
I feel badly: I can't remember his face. It has been a couple of months since I went to see him. And I only saw him once.

I do remember where he lived. I got lost trying to find him. Actually, the directions to his home were clear, and I had no p...

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Dear Jon....

posted 2 months ago | 6 comments
I hated to do it, but I had no choice. I have given him every opportunity and he has continued to ignore me. It hurts, of course, but I guess I asked for it...

I have never been shy about sharing my feelings about him. In fact, most people know h...

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Kindnesses Hanging on the Wall...

posted 2 months ago, updated about 3 hours later | 6 comments
Well, it's that time of year again. Time to make New Year's Resolutions. Even if we don't mean to, I think most of us have a laundry list of things we would like to change in our lives. Some big changes, and some little changes, but changes noneth...

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Jennifer Juniper...

posted 2 months ago | 7 comments
Well, it's official. At midnight tonight, it will be fifty years since the Sixties started.

I was busy in the Sixties. I studied hard, finished high school and started college. I finished junior college and got married. I guess you could say I go...

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Excuse Me....

posted 2 months ago | 7 comments
I remember sitting at the supper table, about a million years ago, and listening to my parents talk about how quickly time goes by. I thought they were nuts. Summer lasted forever, and so did the day before Christmas.

Mostly, time stood still......

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Open Doors....

posted 2 months ago | 5 comments
I just had one of the most wonderful Christmases of my life. No, I didn't get a new car, or diamonds, or anything spectacular. I got something much more important.

Open doors...

Yes, doors played an important role in my Christmas, believe it or ...

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Let There Be Peace on Earth....

posted 2 months ago, updated 2 minutes later | 6 comments
And let it begin with me...

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace. Jimi Hendrix
US rock musician & singer (1942 - 1970)

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, f...

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The Tie That Binds....

posted 2 months ago | 4 comments
The first Christmas after I moved back into my family home was an odd one. I let my husband talk me into doing a “Fifties Tree” because he thought that was what we had when I was growing up. We had the big lights, in all the crayon colors, red and...

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