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Mad mad mom goes all senior on us

Every morning, I sit in the corner of my office and write my 3-morning pages.  It helps me clear my sleepy head, and get me ready for the day.  As I finished up my pages today, I wondered how many months I have left in my 54th year of life?  I'm not dying, (yet), I'm… Continue reading Mad mad mom goes all senior on us

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Magical Monday Moments

Ah, yes, it's the beginning of a work week and I've got nothing fancy planned for the day.  It's back to work I go. But first...I need to feed my creative soul for just a few minutes. Never fear, dear, before I go off to work, I do pause to play.  In fact, I have… Continue reading Magical Monday Moments

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Don’t strain your brain that hard

It's a strain on my brain when writer's block happens.  But it happens to the best of writers.  It's normal.  Period. Why is it that we try to strain our brain so hard? Sometimes we should just sit back and watch life happen.  Instead of curling back into ourselves, we should let the curious parts… Continue reading Don’t strain your brain that hard

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What do you see when you see green?

Well, well, well...if that darn two-day stint with rain storms here in our little corner of the world hasn't helped green up things nicely. I couldn't paint a better picture of it if I tried.  I don't paint, though, so...um...well, you know what I mean. The catalpa tree is still not budding, though.  As one… Continue reading What do you see when you see green?

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A day to just let it go

Do you ever have one of those days where you find the best approach to the day is to, "Just let it go?" That was my yesterday.  The WHOLE DAY.  A day of deep breaths and a "just let it go" attitude. It started crappy with a WordPress battle that was self-induced, sort-of, by my… Continue reading A day to just let it go

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Why, oh, why do I try?

So WordPress changed things again.  And made a terrible mess of a post that I tried to write in the new editor. So I just deleted instead of trying to save it. It was such a nice post - but spell checker had screwed up perineal for perennial - YOWZERS!  That's an embarrassing effort moment… Continue reading Why, oh, why do I try?