While Valentine’s Day is traditionally thought of as a holiday to celebrate romance between people who are in a special close, intimate relationship, I think it’s a holiday to celebrate love, period. That can be between life partners, dating couples, family members, and friends. Let’s Celebrate Love To help us celebrate this day of fun […]
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Lily looks like she’d like to sleep through the weekend. That idea does have some appeal, but then I wouldn’t get any chores done, not to mention fun with pens and colored pencils again. I posted that picture of my cat because I thought it would be nice to start the blog with something to
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With so much of the country digging out from the massive snow storms that swept from Texas across the Midwest and on to the East Coast, this column from Slim Randles seems most appropriate for today. But first, I must say I was mildly amused at some of the jokes that circulated on social media
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I always knew that reading was good for people. As a child, I escaped into fiction and found comfort, and sometimes guidance, in the stories that took me away from the real world for a while. A real world that wasn’t always pleasant. But I didn’t always realize I was learning so much about life
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“Walls turned sideways are bridges.” Angela Davis Davis is an activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author; and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She’s the author of over ten books on class, feminism, race, and the US prison system. The great Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. was all about building
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In the past couple of years I’ve met, and befriended, Cathy Miller on Twitter. We connected initially, when I asked her if she was a cousin from Michigan. That cousin went to the same high school I did, and I knew her long before I met her cousin, Carl, who became my husband. When I
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Today’s offering is from Inspiring Quotes; a website that is becoming a favorite of mine. The daily quote often makes me stop and ponder the message, and I think it’s good to ponder now and then. Often, the quote I read on the website will stir enough thoughts that I’m compelled to write about the
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“Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.” Eugene Ionesco Perhaps the moments we cherish most in life, suggests avant-garde playwright Eugene Ionesco, are the ones that only last a short while. With this quote, Ionesco argues that scarcity increases value, and those temporal wonders we experience — a perfect snowflake melting on a fingertip, or
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Since I’m plumb out of ideas and time but wanted to have a new blog post up, I thought I’d see what Slim Randles has to offer as a holiday-themed essay, and this is a good one. He’s given us glimpses of Mabel’s life in the retirement home before, always presented in a warm, thoughtful
PERFECT PAYBACK The Pepperman Mystery Series by BILL BRISCOE Genre: Fiction Categories: Mystery / Thriller / Suspense Expected Publication: February, 2022 *** 250 pages When Jim and Laura Pepperman find a musty German Olympic jacket and an old journal in their attic, they stumble onto a gripping pre-World War II story of a cousin Jim knows
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