It is always sad for me to rip out the vegetable garden. It means shorter days, less sun, colder temperatures and of course no fresh vegetables! This year’s bounty wasn’t the best but neither was it the worst. Several years ago I couldn’t get green beans to grow. I used Starter plants, switched…
DetailsBreast Cancer Awareness month is October, which happens to be a long month. I mean you see Halloween decorations up forever until the actual day! Similarly, breast cancer can be a long drawn out saga. From diagnosis to treatment end can easily be 8 months to a year or more. Then if radiation is…
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Happy Jewish New Year and Happy Breast Cancer awareness Month! Breast cancer awareness is a very personal advocacy for me. I am a 17-year survivor! Indeed I am one of the lucky ones. I have friends that have not been as lucky and have died from the disease. I have heard people say, “Do…
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I haven’t posted in over a month! To all of you with birthdays I missed on Facebook, I hope it was happy! To those of you with great news I missed, I wish you my sincere congratulations! And to those of you who lost a loved one, human or pet, I am…
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I am a bit busy, but breast cancer happens even if you are very busy! So take your head out from the summer sand and bone up on reality! This is from my doctor’s office Myth 1: Young women don’t get breast cancer Breast cancer can occur at any age Risk increases with age 1 out of 2,212…
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Dear Nordstrom, I have been a Nordstrom charge account customer since 1978. Let me do the math for you, that is 41 years! For over 4 decades I have shopped your stores. Let me be clear, I have actively, in person and recently on line, shopped Nordstrom. I am not dead yet! So why did…
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We have a flagpole in our back yard close to my blueberry bushes. My objective with our flag flying is to annoy the birds from damaging the blueberries. Simply flying an American flag is rather boring. I have a great variety of flags to fly! I started with a beautiful flag of flags of the world.…
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Dear Customer, I am writing to thank-you for everything you have done for me over the years. Thank-you for your business, for your input, your funny stories, your heartbreaking stories, and for including me into your lives. It has been a wonderful journey. Many of you have been my customers from the start, others just…
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As I move closer to retirement I wonder how will I introduce myself professionally? Recently I was at a party. Many of the people there were retired and I was keenly aware how they introduced themselves. Some I already knew, some were familiar names being a friend of a friend and some I was meeting…
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If I believed in coming back to life in again or in another form, I would love to come back as my pet! My pet’s lives are wonderful. I feel pretty wonderful when I am around them too!! I grow catnip for my cats. The catnip wintered over this year so this June the crop…
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