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  • Hope

    Moonlight Shadow, by Gabriele Corno I meant to get the chairs under the deck before winter came, I really did. I enjoy watching the ducks and geese on the pond so much that I just didn’t want to move the chair. My chair. I moved all the other ones under the deck, that should count… Read more

  • The Impossibility of Ice Plumbing

    “What do you mean something’s wrong with the kitchen sink, I just spent 4500 dollars getting it fixe?” Read more

  • Why Not?

    Air trapped in the spaces in the snowflakes is a good sound insulator. Read more

  • Big Deals of London

    “Marianne, fun stuff comes with a certain age.” Sarcasm dripped. “ Pain comes out of nowhere, it leaves one disgusted and usually debilitated in some sense of the word.”  Her thumb was out of commission for a weekend once. She couldn’t use her left hand, gratefully, She was right handed, but it made typing a… Read more

  • Gypsy Wagon

    Show Biz “Oh, come on. You can be Festus and you can be Ms. Kitty,” “But, I want to be Matthew. He’s the sheriff,” he was being petulant, we all knew because his lower lip was sticking out. He was a decent actor.  “You can’t be Matthew. You get all the women in the cat… Read more

  • Mistakes

    Make Mistakes The acronym for Math is Mistakes Allow Thinking to Happen. Because of the mistakes I’ve made in my life, I am the wisest woman in the country, not the world though, I have not experienced war. I’ve thought about it, and don’t want to go through it. I know it’s coming to this… Read more

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  • A Journey With Frank Sinatra

    The pile of vinyl records dropped one Frank Sinatra album onto the turntable. He crooned about Strangers in the Night, and I smiled in my sleep. The needle skipped and Snoopy and the Red Barron were fighting it out in the sky. The needle jumped to Bolero, it pranced around in my head, and a…

  • How to hide a genius

    Shunning is done with silent delight.

  • Every storm runs out of rain

    It wasn’t the right plant for the right place like she’d hoped.

  • The Simple Pleasure of Coffee 

    It was a monumental act of kindness.

  • Elegant Last-Minute Wedding Look: My DIY Dress Disaster

    I bought the perfect shoes to wear to my niece’s wedding. They were black leather with an inch and a half kitten heel. Just above the heel was a gold plate that made me glisten when I walked.  But I didn’t have a dress, so I  made one. I haven’t done any real sewing, not…