Recently I have been thinking about choices I made through the years that literally decades later have come home to roost. That is chicken talk for choices made earlier; even decades earlier that have an outcome now. 30 years ago my husband and I had our home built. We never at the time…
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Last month was the one-year anniversary of my cousin Sarita’s death. Sarita died at age 57. She fell and broke her neck. Her sudden death has given me pause and here are a few lessons I learned from her passing: If you drop something, get up and retrieve it. DO NOT bend over or…
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This spring my Mother died at age 96. For the last 6 years she traveled down the rabbit hole of dementia. For the first 4 years of her slide into dementia she was sometimes right there, and then she diminished into a shell of her former self for the last 2 years. My sister…
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Recently I was on a nonstop cross-country flight. Everywhere this summer seemed to be hot, really hot. Airports can be warm, cold or hot. The same holds true for planes. I usually travel with a scarf or a pashmina but for this leg of my trip I didn’t have it! Why do you fly with…
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I recently spent 2 weeks in the UK with my sister visiting my niece and her family. During that time we babysat for the 4 and 7 year olds a couple of times. Taking my supervisory responsibilities seriously I felt I needed to be fluent in the language, English. My niece and her…
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It has been decades since I wrote about how I spent my summer vacation. Usually I don’t vacation in the summer because of my love affair with my garden. This year however my sister made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. The 2 of us invaded her daughter, my niece and family who live outside…
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Last month I sold my crafts at a recycled arts festival. It was the first time I ever did a big-juried show like this. I up-cycle cowboy shirts into aprons for men, women and children. I also make tooth fairy pillows and my organic cat nip into cat toys. I shop for the fabrics,…
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Our backyard now consists of 2-raised bed gardens separated by a sandy beach. We might be starting a new trend, sandy beach back yards! My husband first extended out into the lawn the garden beds. Both are now about 20 feet long by 8 feet wide. He got sick of mowing and edging the…
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I understand I just lost all my male readers with the title of this blog. Oh well! Paying it forward with tampons is a very woman issue. How many of us have realized we do not have a tampon in our purse, briefcase, desk drawer, bike bag, knapsack or suitcase when we needed it?…
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Last year for my husband’s birthday I gave him a choice; update his passport or check his DNA on an ancestry site. He chose ancestry testing. His Mother, who loved to be dramatic, was always vague about her parents’ history. Other relatives gave many different stories about lineage with Irish and English being the…
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