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  • “It was twenty years ago today…”

    Sometimes a shouting match ended with a loud barking. Dodger didn’t allow the boys to argue.  Read more

  • Rainbow Sails

    This is soooooo political. Not pro Trump at all. Read more

  • Twin Angels

    We were just about the most normal and boring single parent family in the world. Read more

  • Traffic Stop Fundraiser

    Everything in that car made me look guilty of something. I saw the cop look inside.  Read more

  • End of Spring Break

    I have to go back to work today. I’ve enjoyed being off all week and posting daily. I got to participate in my morning writing group for the last ten days, it was wonderful to be able to write in community. For almost two years, we’ve been writing together, it’s such a joy when I Read more

  • To my People in Portugal

    It’s the smallest, yet ugliest yard I’ve ever owned. Read more

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  • Today is the Day

    Today is the day I say goodbye to Thanksgiving break. Anxiety and depression levels are rising, tonight is a school night after all. No more messing around with cats, movies, music, and road trips. House cleaning and laundry will become more of the chore they were before, and less of a leisure activity, they were…

  • Pastry Time

    I am tempted to begin making my rough puff pastry for Christmas. It’s fully delicious and cheap to make. Yet it is  the most labor intensive of all the Christmas delicacies I create, It’s worth every moment it takes for its creation. Butter and flour, rolled, folded, refrigerated and repeated at least five times, it…

  • The Beaded Purse

    Sherri had her daughter’s heart’s desire. Annie needed a beaded clutch purse to go with her formal dress for the prom, just big enough to hold her lipstick and her glasses. Styles go round and round, and she sure enough saved the pocket book she’d taken to her formal dance years ago. Truth be told,…

  • Lightning Temper

    I wouldn’t have been in the grocery store on Thanksgiving morning if I didn’t need to take some dog food and a loaf of bread to my elderly aunt. That’s all she said she needed when I talked to her last night, after I baked her casserole. I would have been at home, binging on…

  • Bright and Dark

    He’d been here before and wanted to show her something magnificent.