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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I love this time of year because my garden is in! Veggies are coming up and it is just so exciting to watch them grow. Yes I suffer from garden love. I am a very enthusiastic vegetable gardener. I like to try a new veggie or 2 every year. I document my plantings, my yield…
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About 9 months ago I stumbled upon a new chocolatier in my neighborhood. If you have never had ‘Drinking Chocolate’ I really recommend it! It is not like hot chocolate but creamy chocolate heaven in a sip. This new place, The Chocolate Laboratory, sells it and much more! One of the items the chocolatier, Kian,…
DetailsI started talking to myself about retirement last year. I started talking to my family and a few friends last year. Then Marie Kondo with her ‘what sparks your joy’ revolution hit January 1, 2019 and although she is talking about one’s closets and stuff, I felt it about my business. I wasn’t feeling the…
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Springtime every year we have ducks that come into the neighborhood. They sit on top of roofs and make use of all the neighbors’ water features in their yards. Our next-door neighbor has had seemingly the same pair of ducks visit them for several years. They named them Fred and Ginger. Somehow Ginger was found…
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I don’t believe in Karma. There I said it! If Karma really worked, good people would live healthy long productive lives and those not, would not. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way! Don’t we all know some despicable humans that are either clueless of their personality or don’t care and live healthy and secure lives while…
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