Tough week in Indiana

What can be more fun than having nearly a foot of snow?  How about, having the flu while the snow comes down?  Yup! That’s my week.  Oh, and did I forget to mention, I started the week with a sinus infection?  I took the first of my antibiotics and that was the last thing I [...]

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Nope, he didn’t think!

When you have a child, who makes a 3.3 GPA, had his EMT license when a Junior in High School and is now taking college classes and high school classes, all while working in a nursing home two afternoons a week, just how dumb can they be?
 
Master’s Daughter gave EMT, for Christmas, a gift of [...]

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The “Why?” of names.

I have a character, in the Young Adult Fantasy Novel that I am writing, which I have to find the perfect name for.   He is kind of a wimpy (but in an honest way) kid who has seen hard times.  He is mainly just uncoordinated and scared of life. 
 
Every once in a while I do [...]

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Hot air, Balloons and Mr. Barlow

I am a visual artist person, but I like science too, and I love the science facts, on Mr. Barlow’s Blog.  If you will scroll down to January 19th, you will see a very neat new source of renewable energy.
 
 I have wanted to be off the grid since Mother Earth News first came out, and [...]

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The promise of today

There was a time when:
 
My mother was dating a young man with Mexican heritage and her mother and his mother had such a fit, that they had to stop dating.
 
I remember having a huge crush on an African American boy in high school and having my mother tell me that, while she had no objection [...]

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CAKE!

I have not been reading blogs regularly lately.  I am spending more time upgrading my web page than reading.  So, today is a lazy day and I thought I would catch up with my list.  Lyda wants cake Pollyanna Wants CAKE!!!!! « Pollyanna Rainbow Sunshine and the Needles of Doom, while I just want one of [...]

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My memory. “What memory?” He said.

I was recently told by my heart doctor that he had never told me my heart was functioning at a low percentage.  Now, I was delighted to hear this.  It has acted like a sugar pill to give me energy that I could not tap into the day before.  Embarrassed, am I? Yes!  Glad I [...]

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This holiday wrap-up is so NOT funny!

The holidays are almost over, for me at last.  As Zup pointed out, I am a holiday nut.  Gaffer flies off in a few hours.  The tree comes down next week and I need to find a new banner; for real.  It is bitter cold here this week, two hour time delays for school and [...]

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Trees, banners, Gaffer, Mom and life.

I still have my tree up, both on my banner and in my front room.  I’m enjoying both yet.  As far as the banner, I have to find something to replace it.  I see that banner most every day and I want it to be interesting, and I need color in my morning. I was [...]

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Happy CBS Sunday Morning

CBS News Sunday Morning is a microcosm of our world.  That hour, on Sunday morning, has become one of my favorite hours of the week.  Pajama clad, usually cup of tea in hand, I curl up under a blanket on the couch and know, that somehow nothing will disturb this hour.  The boys sleep on [...]

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