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The Last Time
Today is my 11th wedding anniversary. I’ve been with my husband for 24 years, but we’ve only been “legal” for 11. We’ll celebrate the day by grilling steaks and having a nice dinner at home. In the past we’ve gone to the restaurant where we had our rehearsal dinner, or the restaurant where we had… →
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“Over the Top” on Father’s Day
It’s Father’s Day. I generally avoid social media on this day because while my father is still alive, I don’t feel enough ‘warm fuzzies’ when I think about him to actually wish him a happy Father’s Day. I don’t wish him a happy birthday in August either. Not that I’m bragging. I certainly wouldn’t do… →
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Daily Prompt Response—The Oldest Thing…
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? I saw this prompt earlier today and it kind of stumped me. I have things that are old, but I don’t necessarily use them daily. But then, as I stood at the kitchen sink, washing dishes by hand because we don’t have a dishwasher,… →
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Daily Prompt Response—Notable Things
What notable things happened today? Considering it’s only 9:21 a.m. at the time of my response here, there hasn’t been a great deal of time for something notable to happen. That is, if the question is referring to notable things in my life, as opposed to Googling what has happened on this day in history.… →
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Things that are making me happy (part 3)
Plants. I live in the south where it has been “bring your plants outside” season for a couple of months already. With that said, in our backyard, we have an area that my husband built just for our potted plants and a bench in the shade on which to enjoy them. There’s close to 20… →
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“Inspirational” Playlist
Teenage me from the 90s would have loved to have an iPod. As someone who bought c.d.’s for just one song, it would have been amazing to build playlists based on different themes and emotions. Mix tapes, and later, burned c.d.’s with a variety of music were definitely in my wheelhouse. Granted, middle-aged me has… →
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Things that are making me happy (part 2)
I discovered my first grey hair yesterday! I saw it first while seated at a table at the eyeglass place picking up my new sunglasses. I thought perhaps it was the bright lighting in the store that was making the hair appear white. But when I got home and looked again in my own bathroom… →
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Things that are making me happy (part 1)
I feel like much of what I have posted online and what I have said to people lately begin with “now that I’m done with grad school”… After that usually comes a statement about something that I am enjoying or something that I am going to do that I couldn’t do for the past two… →
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Just wear one anyway.
Most of my posts are about deep thoughts I have or some introspective reflection I’ve had, but this morning, something happened that caused me to think about something that has future implications. I left the house in my car to go through the drive-thru at a local chain restaurant to get breakfast biscuits and hash… →
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I could get used to this…
Grad school officially ended two weeks ago. I sat through a 4 hour long graduation ceremony in which I was jealous of our commencement speaker who passed out five minutes into her speech and got to leave early, albeit carted off in an ambulance. She’s fine by the way. Since finishing that two year jumble… →